acerb
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Today the gay sensibility -- acerb, lusty, nostalgic, poignant -- dominates high drama and low comedy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lawrence has Pryor's bantam pugnacity, but he lacks the underdog charm, the skewed genius for mimicry and acerb social humor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Groucho's ambition is to keep You Bet Your Life neatly balanced between human interest and acerb comment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bringing back David Brinkley, as wry of manner as ever but now less acerb, has improved the show but not its share of the audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
She denied that stenographers could ever form a union, but she could not answer his acerb, “Why not?”
From The Job An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis
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