acerbity
Example Sentences
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The Academy Awards for the movies of 1988 were awash in bluntness, cruelty and acerbity.
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2020
By now Dimon is nearly iconic in his acerbity and general spikiness.
From Slate • Jul. 17, 2017
He lamented that there were “so many anecdotes” about Jobs’s acerbity: “His intention, and motivation, wasn’t to be hurtful.”
From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015
That's not inappropriate, and once Christopher Salazar arrives as hero John Worthing, the contrast between his benign gravitas and Hunter's febrile acerbity is drolly amusing, a Victorian-era Mutt and Jeff.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2014
"I ain't get ekshitet at ull; but vot'sh de used a makin' monkey beesnesh?" he retorted with triumphant acerbity.
From Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto by Cahan, Abraham
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