acerb
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of acerb
1650–60; < Latin acerbus; acerbic
Example Sentences
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Miss Black was older than her brother, and had already acquired that acerb precision which lies in wait with such frequent success for middle-aged spinsters and bachelors.
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She denied that stenographers could ever form a union, but she could not answer his acerb, “Why not?”
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