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Definition of "acerbity" []

  • Sourness or acidness of taste, character, or tone. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "acerbity" in a sentence
  • "In the other countries of Europe, racial and religious acerbity is intensified by economic and political agitation."
  • "Bonaparte a kind of acerbity and bitter irony, of which he long endeavoured to discover the cause."
  • "He perceived in Bonaparte a kind of acerbity and bitter irony, of which he long endeavoured to discover the cause."