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Definition of acrimonious:

  • (adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism

Sentence Examples:

He hated brawling, acrimonious dispute.

A lengthy and acrimonious discussion ensued.

The correspondence which ensued was acrimonious.

The conversation that ensued was acrimonious.

In chemistry and medicine, sharp, pungent, acrimonious.

Trace, an acrimonious red tinging his cheeks.

Upon differences in debate shall acrimonious recriminations be exchanged?

The doctor reproved him, with an acrimonious savagery.

This leads to acrimonious wrangling and consequent delay.

The correspondence between them was exceedingly pithy and acrimonious.

Theoretic differences and personal controversies lead to strife and acrimonious enmities.

But the more he cursed, the more acrimonious and virulent he became.

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious, and severe.

She was developing more and more a power of acrimonious and unanswerable retort.

A correspondence ensued between the President and Vice-President of the most acrimonious character.

When Governor Harvey attempted to contract for the crop, an acrimonious debate ensued.

Every heart rejoices, every tongue blesses, every acrimonious feeling is consigned to oblivion.

She was sometimes very imperious to her daughter, and very acrimonious as well.

There was no acrimonious debate, nor was there any exhibition of violent partisanship.

We were frequently acrimonious, I fear, but our small wrangles ended with the evening.

Previous movements toward liturgical revision have been of a more or less partisan and acrimonious temper.

Incidentally, his enthusiasm served to wean Sir Geoffrey's mind from acrimonious criticism of politicians.

They are charged with imparting a biting and acrimonious taste to radishes and turnips.

The idea of such disloyal purposes excited the Governor to the most acrimonious criticism.

Now descends a war of ink, that is recklessly acrimonious and not at all merry.

"And grandmother," chimes in Miss Priscilla, gracefully, as though ashamed of her former acrimonious remarks.

They had become weary of the ceaseless and acrimonious discussions of the different philosophical schools.

Even in the most acrimonious wrangles in the courtroom he was always the suave, polished gentleman.

In truth, he was a Jacobite only because he was the most intolerant and acrimonious of Whigs.

We find ourselves plunged into acrimonious discussions, which, to my mind, arise entirely from the waffles.

Not confining himself to an acrimonious exchange of letters, he affixed at the sea gate an insulting proclamation.

This action incited some discussion, and much acrimonious comment, in her family and among their friends.

The very title has afforded ground for censure, for licentious imitation 18, and for acrimonious abuse.

This called for reproof from the other side, and the discussion grew hot and acrimonious.

They went so far as to repeal, after a spirited and acrimonious debate, the ordinance of secession.

Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court.

There is less acrimonious attack on public men, less political misrepresentation, less unfairness toward any opponent.

Knox, his Secretary of State, but it really cut little figure in the acrimonious discussion that ensued.

He is vindictive and acrimonious beyond measure; but, between the two, a good deal of truth is struck out.

Only after a long and acrimonious debate did enough states ratify the instrument to put it into effect.

Followed now a lengthy and at times acrimonious argument as to the further operations of the marshal's posse.

Then began an acrimonious discussion between the friends of Wyatt and the objectors to his proposed statue.

Answered Dauphin, with acrimonious voice but insinuating manner, for he loved to stand well with the Seigneur.

The father's spasms of acrimonious judgment steadied in the son to a constant rancor always finding new objects.

Cast the beams out of your own eyes before you shed your acrimonious calumny upon the virtuous and the just.

The detective was so indignant and acrimonious withal in his indignation, that Andre could not repress a smile.

To my inexperience we at first appeared on the eve of a civil war; each party was violent, acrimonious, and unyielding.

I fail to find in the three volumes of his poems, even in the Letters, one acrimonious line savoring of personality.

As he came in, they broke off what had evidently been an acrimonious dispute and gave him their undivided attention.

You will see by the papers, now sent to you, that there has been much acrimonious discussion of late on African affairs.

An ulcer is a dissolution of solids, occasioned by acrimonious humors, which not only act spontaneously upon each other, but prevent the remaining circulating part from the formation of unnatural substances.

At last the government awoke to its own responsibility in the matter of education, after the long and acrimonious controversy between the advocates of English and vernacular teaching had worn itself out.

The resentment which the discovery of a fault or folly produces, must bear a certain proportion to our pride, and will regularly be more acrimonious as pride is more immediately the principle of action.

There are some acrimonious passages in this dedication, referring to the controversies in which the author had been engaged; and, obscure as these have become, it is the biographer's duty to detail and illustrate them.

In the main these tragedies are nothing more than vehicles for the poet's stormy protest, much of it after the Storm and Stress pattern; and mere protest, however acrimonious, cannot be called Weltschmerz.

Year after year he criticized the Senate House Papers and the Smith's Prize Papers question by question very severely: and conducted an interesting and acrimonious private correspondence with Professor Cayley on the same subject.

The consternation in the palace was great, as the crisis was unexpected; but whilst the acrimonious discussions as to the succession were still in progress the Queen rallied, and was pronounced out of danger.

It may at first sight appear strange that a law, which is not unwelcome to those who are to live under it, should excite such acrimonious feelings among people who are wholly exempted from its operation.

The acrimonious interview ended with this remark, and after I left him he went to General Grant's headquarters and repeated the conversation to him, mentioning that I had said that I could whip Stuart.

The trivial bits and pieces of a personal life projected in acrimonious speech were often expressions of anger toward that other one whom these intense shared pleasures were dependent, and the whole thing disgusted her.

From this we should infer that she desired to repeat the observations on the heavenly bodies that had created such a sensation in the learned world, and which had given occasion for such acrimonious controversy.

There can be no doubt that a very strong prejudice was raised against it, which it took many years to conquer; and the controversies which arose on the subject between learned doctors were long and acrimonious.

Himself a rich man, it is not likely that Cameron profited personally by government contracts, even though the acrimonious Thad Stevens said of his appointment as Secretary that it would add "another million to his fortune."

There is no difference between us as to ends: there is an honest difference of opinion as to means: and we surely ought to be able to discuss the points on which we differ without one angry emotion or one acrimonious word.

I am prepared for much censure and acrimonious discussion, especially over the very point upon which I take my stand, that a novel dealing with the character of Nelson ought above all things to be a human document.

The injection of such a movement in a State where equal suffrage had long been in force and the women had allied themselves with the parties of their choice, created among them a keen resentment and acrimonious controversy.

That a hot political campaign was raging throughout the length and breadth of the State was not to be doubted; the newspapers were full of it, and in many districts the fight had become acrimonious and bitter.

The last and most acrimonious lawsuit was in regard to the form of the sworn relation which the royal officials must give to the auditor of accounts, in order that he may audit the general accounts of each year.

Acrimonious were the legal struggles fought over infringements and rights of way, and, in the first years of the building of the lines to all parts of this country, real warfare was waged by the workers of competing companies.

But it is a trial which Macaulay conducts before us; he takes a side in it; his account is the address of a public prosecutor before the court, the most entrancing, the most acrimonious, the best reasoned, that was ever written.

There was considerable discussion, more or less acrimonious, at this proposition, but it was finally adopted without the formality of a vote, the secretary being instructed to set the date April 25th down as the final decision of the meeting.

With the fierce war cry of sects in religion, in their acrimonious and never ending contests about abstract terms without a meaning, their combats about the vague and technical phrases of formulas of faith, I have long since had nothing to do.