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- adverb
sourly ;bitterly - adverb In a
sarcastic orcynical manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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As the Washington Post's Hank Stuever acerbically wrote last week about the current season: It's all bunnies, baby dolls and broads – and bridezillas and bimbos, if you get into reality TV.
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Should they hesitate on rapidly providing the details, The Man firmly and acerbically reminds them to ante them up--fast!
Bill Robinson: New Media: Take A Seat In the Booth at the End Bill 2011
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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.
In New York, 'Good People' a sign of hope for this theater season 2011
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But anecdotal and scattershot as it may be, it's also one of the most acerbically amusing books ever written on bars and gives one a real appreciation of saloon talk.
The All-American Place David Wondrich 2011
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Should they hesitate on rapidly providing the details, The Man firmly and acerbically reminds them to ante them up--fast!
Bill Robinson: New Media: Take A Seat In the Booth at the End Bill 2011
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Should they hesitate on rapidly providing the details, The Man firmly and acerbically reminds them to ante them up--fast!
Bill Robinson: New Media: Take A Seat In the Booth at the End Bill 2011
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The most acerbically incisive advice comes from British author Will Self.
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Should they hesitate on rapidly providing the details, The Man firmly and acerbically reminds them to ante them up--fast!
Bill Robinson: New Media: Take A Seat In the Booth at the End Bill 2011
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Should they hesitate on rapidly providing the details, The Man firmly and acerbically reminds them to ante them up--fast!
Bill Robinson: New Media: Take A Seat In the Booth at the End Bill 2011
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She's acerbically witty, wickedly honest, appealingly irreverent and just plain smart.
Debra Ollivier: Funny, Filthy, and Smart: Sandra Tsing Loh Meets Sarah Silverman 2010
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