acerbity
Example Sentences
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As her New York Times obituary put it, “She specialized in sourness, or, more politely, acerbity, which she used to her comic advantage in roles as housekeepers, spinsters, wicked stepmothers, nuns and back-talking secretaries.”
From Slate • Aug. 16, 2019
It brings together judgment and gentleness, reason and passion, acerbity and receptivity.
From The Guardian • Sep. 21, 2018
And yet another worried about the prospect of a boycott of their companies’ products depending on the acerbity of their words.
From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2017
Its emotional harshness and quasi-confessional acerbity is radically untimely—and therefore enduring.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2017
When the delicate flavour of his cigar floated away on the soft summer air, even Valentine’s acerbity of temper relaxed.
From Greene Ferne Farm by Jefferies, Richard
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