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Acerb


Definition:

  • (a.) Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Early on he wrote in a wide variety of outlets (including twice in the Guardian ), but his acerbic takes on the national security state have earned him a regular column at the paleocon mothership, the American Conservative.
  • (2) Lewis, 42, admitted he was "hugely embarrassed" after McKellen, 74, who plays the wizard Gandalf in the Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit films, responsed acerbically in the Radio Times.
  • (3) Scottish Ballet: The Nutcracker In recent years, Christmas at Scottish Ballet has been defined by Ashley Page’s witty, acerbic re-writes of the 19th century classics.
  • (4) In contrast, he returned to the mainstream in Robert Redford's factually based Quiz Show (1994), as the acerbic father to a fraudulent game-show contestant.
  • (5) Jess Phillips, Labour MP for the Birmingham Yardley, has already posted an acerbic tweet.
  • (6) He was a man of contradictions: he was a romantic, but also an acerbic and difficult character.
  • (7) Other work in the show recalls Soviet-era propaganda posters, and twists political slogans to acerbic effect.
  • (8) The acerbic correspondence of Jones and Briffa with Michael Mann of Penn State University , the chief creator of the hockey stick graph, is a central feature of the emails.
  • (9) The result is a show whose rapid-paced, ultra-acerbic dialogue is as funny as anything on television at the moment.
  • (10) And we will address it.” The Vermont senator urged attendees to “join me in this campaign to build a future that works for all of us, and not just the few on top.” Although the acerbic left-winger is a political veteran, this will be his first Democratic primary.
  • (11) Mark Gardner, Community Security Trust On Holocaust Memorial Day 2013, the Sunday Times ran a cartoon by its famously acerbic cartoonist, Gerald Scarfe, that depicts Binyamin Netanyahu using blood to cement a wall that he is building, that has parts of bodies trapped within it.
  • (12) His acerbic former adviser Dominic Cummings , long loathed by David Cameron (the feeling is mutual), is the campaign director.
  • (13) His acerbic wit and combative manner can ruffle feathers.
  • (14) The acerbic comments from the official Xinhua news agency come after Clinton, while on an official visit to Africa , appeared to question China's motives in the region.
  • (15) It received a warm reception in the House of Lords, though one peer commented acerbically that Adonis’s predecessor, Ruth Kelly, had just two years earlier called such a project “opportunistic, economically illiterate and hugely damaging to Britain’s national interests”.
  • (16) Angela Eagle The chair of the Labour national policy forum and shadow leader of the house has an acerbic wit capable of putting most Tory ministers on the back foot.
  • (17) Erdoğan’s acerbic response on Monday suggested the EU’s concerns were justified.
  • (18) Or rather, she was a sort of ultra-acerbic clown: an outlandishly dressed and painted pixie-harpy, who said whatever she liked.
  • (19) "As the wonderfully acerbic Anne Robinson said, 'The viewers don't want to watch ugly.'"
  • (20) The hashtag #Clapper on Twitter is filled with acerbic tweets mocking the "least untruthful" line.

Acerbity


Definition:

  • (n.) Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
  • (n.) Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Early on he wrote in a wide variety of outlets (including twice in the Guardian ), but his acerbic takes on the national security state have earned him a regular column at the paleocon mothership, the American Conservative.
  • (2) Lewis, 42, admitted he was "hugely embarrassed" after McKellen, 74, who plays the wizard Gandalf in the Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit films, responsed acerbically in the Radio Times.
  • (3) Scottish Ballet: The Nutcracker In recent years, Christmas at Scottish Ballet has been defined by Ashley Page’s witty, acerbic re-writes of the 19th century classics.
  • (4) In contrast, he returned to the mainstream in Robert Redford's factually based Quiz Show (1994), as the acerbic father to a fraudulent game-show contestant.
  • (5) Jess Phillips, Labour MP for the Birmingham Yardley, has already posted an acerbic tweet.
  • (6) He was a man of contradictions: he was a romantic, but also an acerbic and difficult character.
  • (7) Other work in the show recalls Soviet-era propaganda posters, and twists political slogans to acerbic effect.
  • (8) The acerbic correspondence of Jones and Briffa with Michael Mann of Penn State University , the chief creator of the hockey stick graph, is a central feature of the emails.
  • (9) The result is a show whose rapid-paced, ultra-acerbic dialogue is as funny as anything on television at the moment.
  • (10) And we will address it.” The Vermont senator urged attendees to “join me in this campaign to build a future that works for all of us, and not just the few on top.” Although the acerbic left-winger is a political veteran, this will be his first Democratic primary.
  • (11) Mark Gardner, Community Security Trust On Holocaust Memorial Day 2013, the Sunday Times ran a cartoon by its famously acerbic cartoonist, Gerald Scarfe, that depicts Binyamin Netanyahu using blood to cement a wall that he is building, that has parts of bodies trapped within it.
  • (12) His acerbic former adviser Dominic Cummings , long loathed by David Cameron (the feeling is mutual), is the campaign director.
  • (13) His acerbic wit and combative manner can ruffle feathers.
  • (14) The acerbic comments from the official Xinhua news agency come after Clinton, while on an official visit to Africa , appeared to question China's motives in the region.
  • (15) It received a warm reception in the House of Lords, though one peer commented acerbically that Adonis’s predecessor, Ruth Kelly, had just two years earlier called such a project “opportunistic, economically illiterate and hugely damaging to Britain’s national interests”.
  • (16) Angela Eagle The chair of the Labour national policy forum and shadow leader of the house has an acerbic wit capable of putting most Tory ministers on the back foot.
  • (17) Erdoğan’s acerbic response on Monday suggested the EU’s concerns were justified.
  • (18) Or rather, she was a sort of ultra-acerbic clown: an outlandishly dressed and painted pixie-harpy, who said whatever she liked.
  • (19) "As the wonderfully acerbic Anne Robinson said, 'The viewers don't want to watch ugly.'"
  • (20) The hashtag #Clapper on Twitter is filled with acerbic tweets mocking the "least untruthful" line.

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