acerb
Example Sentences
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The dialogue is breezy, the tone acerb and the climax as predictably uplifting as Rocky's.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some years ago, during a brief lull in Frost's career, acerb Journalist Malcolm Muggeridge predicted that Frost would sink without a trace.
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
Along with another acerb little volume, Gore Vidal's The American Presidency, it can be taken as an ideal chaser to the recent binge of Monicaholism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miss Black was older than her brother, and had already acquired that acerb precision which lies in wait with such frequent success for middle-aged spinsters and bachelors.
From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary
