Sentence examples for acerbic reply from inspiring English sources

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This is a facsimile edition of the original 1917 volume, which contains a critical and acerbic reply by Thomas Thomsen of the Ethnographical Department at the National Museum of Denmark to Vol. 39 of Monographs on Greenland, titled Ammassalik Eskimo and edited by William Thalbitzer, also available in the present series.

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David Allen Green also has this rather acerbic response to the decision.

Tebbit is at his most acerbic, and revealing, in reply.

If you had asked, say, Lester Bangs or Nick Kent in their respective acerbic primes, they would have probably replied that your editor is the person you ignore, lie to and terrorise in the hope of browbeating them into allowing you to write exactly what you want, at a length – and to a deadline – of your own specification.

Once, when someone asked the Wendy's Twitter handle how much a Big Mac costs, the account fired back: "Your dignity". Another time, a Twitter user asked what they should get an In 'n' Out and Wendy's replied: "Out". The company's acerbic Twitter account doesn't just poke fun at rivals in the restaurant business, either.

I am acerbic.

But forget acerbic Jewish Americans.

He was acerbic, witty and caustic.

Mr. Hefer could be an acerbic critic.

Opinionated, pugnacious, acerbic, passionate, dedicated, uncompromising.

I loved her acerbic wit.

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