Examples of “acerbity” in a Sentence

noun Sharpness or bitterness in tone or manner.

• 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. — Baroness Orczy i.e, Emma Orczy (1904)
• acerbity of temper, of language, of pain

noun A harsh remark, action or experience.

• This opera was mainly in the style of late Puccini, with acerbities stolen from Stravinsky. — Anthony Burgess (1980)