acerbity
Example Sentences
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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
By now Dimon is nearly iconic in his acerbity and general spikiness.
From Slate • Jul. 17, 2017
Its emotional harshness and quasi-confessional acerbity is radically untimely—and therefore enduring.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2017
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
Mr. Hogan does not spare Mr. Gladstone’s political errors; he is, on the contrary, rather given to dwelling upon them with an acerbity which is to be regretted.
From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
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