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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | acrimony, bitterness, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
| Type of | disagreeableness |
| Derivation | acerbate, acerbic |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | bitter, bitterness |
| Derivation | acerbate |
Examples of acerbity
acerbity
It had more laughs than any Woody film for a while and a pleasing acerbity.
From the guardian.co.uk
He has none of Letterman's acerbity, or any of Leno's amiable factory-line functionality.
From the newsday.com
Those series all have a grim edge, though, rarely relaxing into anything more than humorous acerbity.
From the tv.nytimes.com
At a time when many agents have turned mercenary, Wylie tops them all in aggressiveness and acerbity.
From the time.com
Every object is overloaded to bursting with visual acerbity, mocking the very idea of everyday use.
From the time.com
In the other countries of Europe, racial and religious acerbity is intensified by economic and political agitation.
From the theatlantic.com
It's just hard to know where in this characterisation she finds the acerbity that makes this woman interesting.
From the guardian.co.uk
Some years back Saul Bellow stirred up a hornet's nest by asking, with his customary acerbity, who the Tolstoy of the Zulus was.
From the online.wsj.com
Here she abandons some of the honesty and acerbity which characterised her debut, and expands her sound away from the acoustic guitar.
From the kidderminstershuttle.co.uk
- A sharp bitterness
- A sharp sour taste
- Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit; Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain
