acerb

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The film's tone is acerb, but its climax is as predictably uplifting as Rocky's and as surefire effective as Damn Yankees'.

From Time Magazine Archive

Washington's famed, acerb hostess, "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, 63, lost her footing in a butcher shop, landed hard, broke her left arm in two places and sprained her ankle.

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The dialogue is breezy, the tone acerb and the climax as predictably uplifting as Rocky's.

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Groucho's ambition is to keep You Bet Your Life neatly balanced between human interest and acerb comment.

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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 Lewis, Sinclair