acerbically

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The plaintive observation, ascribed to the early Victorian British Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne about the acerbically self-confident historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, remains the motto of the thoughtfully skeptical man through the ages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Meanwhile, a woman in her 20s from Rasht, in northern Iran, observed acerbically: "Wow, very heartwarming that he didn't even appear on state TV to issue the message."

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

TLR was started by Barron’s alumnus John Liscio, who acerbically observed that economists can’t forecast the future because they couldn’t get the present right, so he started tracking it for them.

From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025

Nikki Finke, the Hollywood journalist who founded Deadline and often acerbically called out movie executives, died yesterday.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2022

"What else is new?" asked the President acerbically.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn