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Meanings of acerbity in inglês
Synonyms
Examples for "bitterness"
Examples for "bitterness"
1
The court cases and scandals brought recreational drugs, depression and increasing bitterness.
2
Asperity and bitterness must be buried in the graves with the dead.
3
The project has caused much bitterness among well-to-do Jews in the area.
4
The coldness of the clergyman was forgotten in the bitterness of self-reproach.
5
Many said the government had compounded their bitterness by curtailing collective mourning.
1
There is often much exaggeration, much unfairness, much acrimony in their debates.
2
We are witnessing a time of multiple crises and much international acrimony.
3
He replied with little force and great acrimony; but no rejoinder appeared.
4
The flapper was showing traces of tears, but also a considerable acrimony.
5
Mutual acrimony is the currency of the U.S.-Pakistani relationship, not clean breaks.
1
Purpose: A new method of palliation of malignant obstructive jaundice is presented.
2
The doctors were puzzled by the fact that it wasn't quite jaundice.
3
A 64-year-old man presented with right upper-quadrant pain, jaundice, and weight loss.
4
But this just being short of jaundice all the time confused them.
5
The main admission diagnoses were early onset neonatal sepsis, jaundice and prematurity.
1
So like a man's observation, that, continued the Colonel with much tartness.
2
Emma swallowed a sip of Perrier, its bubbling tartness tickling her nose.
3
Carrots and onions contribute sweetness as well as aroma, wine tartness and savoriness.
4
Lady Salkeld looked at him, sniffed, and said with some tartness:
5
The tartness of the blueberries was tempered by the sweet pinkberries.
1
In their thorniness, however, there is no malice, only some malic acid.
2
She was right about the thorniness of the situation, Rozsak reflected.
3
The most characteristic feature of the jungle was its thorniness.
4
It was a rank wild growth, with many green leaves on it still, and made an impression of thorniness.
5
Cunning little thing, for all her thorniness and her sharpness with him, which he now saw that he had deserved....
Usage of acerbity in inglês
1
There was an outward starch and acerbity produced by toil and danger.
2
He must be forgiven if he seemed to speak with unusual acerbity.
3
With acerbity, he said, That doesn't seem to be any of my business.
4
With some acerbity I pointed out the futility of his proposition.
5
Howson was rather surprised at the sudden acerbity of her tone.
6
She spoke passionately, often with the absurd acerbity of her mother.
7
After a time Mern suggested with acerbity that Craig was incoherent.
8
He was walking away when the other, with some acerbity, called to him.
9
This with a touch of acerbity, for Mrs. Legion is not without pride.
10
The honesty of it knocked the acerbity out of her.
11
The acerbity of his criticism of other scholars' work did not always make him friends.
12
With acerbity they promulgated the gospel of modern humanism and the surrender of outward beliefs.
13
The very acerbity of her nature had seemed charming.
14
You are ignorant, Miss Bordereau remarked; not with acerbity but with a strange, soft coldness.
15
Here he waited for Godfrey's contradiction, but as none came, went on with added acerbity:
16
On the other hand, there is not the slightest trace of cynical acerbity in his writings.
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