acerbic
Example Sentences
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Aoki commissions the acerbic Jack to find and return his painting discreetly: “Nose around. Be a bit of a pest. There’s no one better than you to do that.”
Outwardly unassuming and privately acerbic, Martin Gilmour teaches at a second-rate English university that, in his words, “tended to attract the stupid rich.”
This turn in the film, written and directed by Simón Mesa Soto, reveals a slightly sentimental streak beneath its acerbic surface.
Yet Münter has long been overshadowed by contemporaries like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who veered into acerbic expressionism, and Wassily Kandinsky, who migrated toward pure abstraction.
The Soviet Union was a land of shortages, but there was no shortage of acerbic sayings.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
