acerbity
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The Academy Awards for the movies of 1988 were awash in bluntness, cruelty and acerbity.
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2020
As her New York Times obituary put it, “She specialized in sourness, or, more politely, acerbity, which she used to her comic advantage in roles as housekeepers, spinsters, wicked stepmothers, nuns and back-talking secretaries.”
From Slate • Aug. 16, 2019
He lamented that there were “so many anecdotes” about Jobs’s acerbity: “His intention, and motivation, wasn’t to be hurtful.”
From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015
That's not inappropriate, and once Christopher Salazar arrives as hero John Worthing, the contrast between his benign gravitas and Hunter's febrile acerbity is drolly amusing, a Victorian-era Mutt and Jeff.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2014
"We shall all be living on turnips quite soon," Lesbia declared with acerbity.
From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.
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