A rough and bitter manner.
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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