acerb

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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

Today the gay sensibility -- acerb, lusty, nostalgic, poignant -- dominates high drama and low comedy.

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

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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