View definitions for acerb

acerb

adjective as in sour

Weak matches

Discover More

Example Sentences

The fruit remains acerb and hard; the tree declines to be "ameliorated" for the good of mankind.

She denied that stenographers could ever form a union, but she could not answer his acerb, “Why not?”

Thereupon followed a soft discussion that was as near being acerb as nails are near velvet paws.

Browse