habituationEnglishMerriam-Webster Dictionarylated Words brisk, cross, sharp-tongued, sour, sourish, spiky (also spikey), tartishincisive, keen, poignant, trenchantcynical, dry, ironic (also ironical), wryfacetious, flippant, tongue-in-cheekacrimonious, bitter, resentful, vitriolicharsh, rough, severe, stringentabrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), concise, crisp, curt, gruff, pithy, snippety, snippy, succinct, tersebackhanded, insincere