Acerbity

Definitions

1. Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
   countable, uncountable
2. Harshness, bitterness, or severity
   countable, uncountable
3. Something harsh (e.g. a remark, act or experience).
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“acerbity of temper, of language, of pain”

““Well ?” I repeated with some acerbity. I had been wondering for the last⟳ ten minutes how many more knots he would manage⟳ to make⟳ in that same bit of string before he actually started undoing them again.”

“[…] the recollection of that yesterday […] made him bear⟳ with the meekness and patience of a true-hearted man all the worrying little acerbities of to-day;”

“This opera was mainly in the style of late Puccini, with acerbities stolen from Stravinsky.”

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