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acerbity

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8 lettersPronunciation /əˈsɜːbɪti/Part of speech nounSorted abceirtyStarts with AEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a rough and bitter manner

Word origin

Borrowed from French acerbité, from Latin acerbitās (“acerbity; harshness”), from acerbus (“bitter”). See acerb.

Used in a sentence

  • 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;

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