ascerbic

• “You can be as ascerbic as the mods will allow ........”

  Cleanest citiies in Mexico news item

• “Maisie, who begins the novel is an outsider, a strange prescient thirteen-year-old child - a little girl who talks to the dead, but a girl with a tough, ascerbic mind.”

  Searching for The Sisters by Sally Beauman

• “An actor, Chase finds himself acting the part of the grieving widower-to-be, of the handsome beefcake at the swanky party, of the sincere sidekick to the ascerbic and unintelligible Perkus Tooth.”

  Boing Boing

• “The only traits that have gotten Paul to where he is today are his ascerbic wit and partisan cynicism, certainly not his intellect.”

  Begala calls Palin 'about half a whack job'

• “Thomas is a longtime fixture at the White House who's known for directing pointed and ascerbic questions at Democratic and Republican administrations alike, and her firing would be a big story.”

  The Washington Post: Saturday Roundup: Hearst won't say whether Helen Thomas will keep job

• “We may be skeptics and cynics with "ascerbic wit and a wry sense of humor.”

  The Huffington Post: Dr. Judith Rich: How to Love A Curmudgeon

• “I am not being sycophantic of Josh M., he just had that in the middle of one of his ascerbic comments, but the works nicely as a stand alone, I think.”

  Election Central Morning Roundup

• “You even have an ascerbic "You would" snark for your client, because you think IE is "the bane of web developers" -- which of course, isn't quite true, but it's just the sort of hyperbole you indulge in, bonding with certain folks of your views, without the slightest concern for the truth.”

  Some Thoughts on Firefox @ DoS

• “On the occasion of Helms 'Senate retirement, courtly moderate David Broder wrote one of the very few personally ascerbic columns of his long newpaper career.”

  Harold Pollack: Sorry Mr. President, but Jesse Helms was NOT a "Kind, Decent, and Humble Man," nor a "Great Patriot."

• “Whether it is David Gergen, David Broder, or a terminally ascerbic George Will, the term "populist" rolls of their tongues and typewriters like some kind of poison – apparently, their idea of a killer epithet.”

  The "Populist" Epithet �� On Smearing The Majority

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