Usage examples (12)

• John Richardson's piece on Judy Chicago is delightful, insightful, and nicely acerb.
• The morning my review ran, I got a call from an agent friend who is cultivated, extraordinarily smart and superbly acerb.
• This way came Dr. John, in visage, in shape, in hue, as unlike the dark, acerb, and caustic little professor, as the fruit of the Hesperides might be unlike the sloe in...
• Thereupon followed a soft discussion that was as near being acerb as nails are near velvet paws.