acerb
Speech parts
1. acerb - Adjective
2. acerb - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.
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Examples
So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.
an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose
a barrage of acid comments
her acrid remarks make her many enemies
bitter words
blistering criticism