acerbity
Example Sentences
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It brings together judgment and gentleness, reason and passion, acerbity and receptivity.
From The Guardian • Sep. 21, 2018
By now Dimon is nearly iconic in his acerbity and general spikiness.
From Slate • Jul. 17, 2017
Its emotional harshness and quasi-confessional acerbity is radically untimely—and therefore enduring.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2017
As Claire — a role played with immortal acerbity by Elaine Stritch, opposite Ms. Harris — Ms. Duncan becomes the cute, love-starved little sister who never quite grew up.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2014
Her expression was a most imprudent betrayal; it clearly told, by its acerbity and exultance, that she held the present occasion to be one of prodigious and triumphant import.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
