Sample Sentences for
acerbic
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    Matthias was still, his blade still pinned against Jia's throat, his lips shaping words as if he were whispering something, or reciting something he had heard— Or listening, she realized, listening to words being whispered into his ear ... "You cannot win," Matthias said finally, and Jace laughed, that sharp acerbic laugh Clary had first fallen in love with.†  (source)
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    Though the sea was like a washboard, and progress upon it was both nauseating and cold, the acerbic smoke from the engines of the cattle boat was slicked back from the funnel like the hair of a pilot in an open cockpit, and it no longer tangled over the decks in crosswinds, tormenting the condemned and their captors alike.†  (source)
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    Mr. Fleming proves to be loud and acerbic and sometimes coyly wiseguyish.†  (source)
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    "Thanks so much," I said, my voice acerbic.†  (source)
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    He teases her by saying that in that case it would be sinful of him to marry at all, since to do so would amount to matricide; and he adds — to soften the acerbity — that he can do much better without a wife than without a mother, and especially such a perfect mother as herself; at which she gives him a sharp look which tells him she knows several tricks worth two of that, and is not deceived.†  (source)
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    my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy!†  (source)
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    "Handling does seem to have a way of eclipsing breeding," she said acerbically.†  (source)
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    Dr. Randolph Gates found a relentless wave on which to ride, a mellifluous voice with which to speak, and a growing acerbic vocabulary to match the dawning new era.†  (source)
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    As I say this I realize the acerbity of the words but somehow don't regret them.†  (source)
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    Terry was rough, he was surly, he was colloquial, he despised many fine and gracious things, he offended many fine and gracious people, but these acerbities made up the haircloth robe wherewith he defended a devotion to such holy work as no cowled monk ever knew.†  (source)
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    Dapper, cultivated, and acerbic, a leather briefcase tucked under his arm, he is a familiar figure on Broadway as the theater critic for New York magazine.†  (source)
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    The dove then turned up his coat-collar, and put on his cocked hat; and, having exchanged a long and affectionate embrace with his future partner, once again braved the cold wind of the night: merely pausing, for a few minutes, in the male paupers' ward, to abuse them a little, with the view of satisfying himself that he could fill the office of workhouse-master with needful acerbity.†  (source)
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    Olmsted had a reputation for brilliance and tireless devotion to his work—but also for an acerbic candor that emerged most predictably in the presence of men who failed to understand that what he sought to create were not flower beds and ornamental gardens but expanses of scenery full of mystery, shadow, and sun-stippled ground.†  (source)
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