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Definition of "acerbically" []

  • Sourly; bitterly (adverb)
  • In a sarcastic or cynical manner. (adverb)

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Use "acerbically" in a sentence
  • "The most acerbically incisive advice comes from British author Will Self."
  • "Lindsay-Abaire, who won a Pulitzer Prize for "Rabbit Hole," his absorbing study of a grieving family that became a movie with Nicole Kidman, is working in a more acerbically comic vein in "Good People," the story of McDormand's Margaret Walsh, a hard-luck single mom and lifelong denizen of heavily Irish working-class South Boston."
  • "Should they hesitate on rapidly providing the details, The Man firmly and acerbically reminds them to ante them up--fast!"
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