(of a person or what they say) critical in a direct and rather cruel way The letter was written in her usual acerbic style.
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NAmE//əˈsərbət̮i//
noun [uncountable]See acerbic in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: acerbic