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Example sentences for: acerbic

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With what acerbic suavity would he have retorted to Katherina's “..
Robert Dole had the title New Dole Lite bestowed upon him because he was perceived to be “less acerbic [and] more personal [ sic ]” than he previously had been ( Time , November 16, 1987).
Simpson apparently meant to write an acerbic social portrait of America's post-postindustrial revolution, and of the former countercultural baby boomers who lead it.
Brodkey began to write an acerbic column about life and letters for the New York Observer , and it was said that this new diversion proved he would never finish the novel.
What made her famous is that she did all these things in one lifetime, like a paper doll that comes with different costumes for different vocations (the girl about town, the war correspondent, the ambassador); that she did them all and was beautiful; that she did them all in a perfumed cloud of scandal and glamour, trailed by many lovers and by gossip that she herself stoked with her acerbic tongue and her thirst for celebrity.