acerb
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Today the gay sensibility -- acerb, lusty, nostalgic, poignant -- dominates high drama and low comedy.
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Washington's famed, acerb hostess, "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, 63, lost her footing in a butcher shop, landed hard, broke her left arm in two places and sprained her ankle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Groucho's ambition is to keep You Bet Your Life neatly balanced between human interest and acerb comment.
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"One might suppose that all of this should be entirely clear to any careful reader of the Court's decision," wrote Stewart in acerb conclusion.
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With her "mayn't be's" and her "is'es," Sylvie was unconsciously making a habit of the trick of Susan Nipper, but with a kindlier touch to her antitheses than pertained to those of that acerb damsel.
From The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
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