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Definition of acrimony:

  • (noun) a rough and bitter manner

Sentence Examples:

Her acrimony is almost incomprehensible.

He bore unjust reproaches without acrimony.

It was escape from threatening acrimony.

Said Harriet, with perfection of subdued acrimony.

There was concentrated acrimony in his accents.

It was free from the acrimony of controversy.

The edge of acrimony crept into the argument.

"I don't like you," said Bobby, with acrimony.

Rarely, too, is there acrimony or hard feeling.

It was characterized by a good deal of acrimony.

All acrimony had vanished from her tone.

Said I, probably with some acrimony in my voice.

The official spoke with a good deal of acrimony.

He said, but without acrimony, simply in weariness.

He even goes beyond the acrimony of the original.

Wyndham announced it in a speech of solemn acrimony.

He now spoke of Osborne to Elizabeth without acrimony.

The acrimony in his tone did not escape her.

Fox attacked him with great force and acrimony.

The acrimony of the populace became more and more menacing.

He admitted, with acrimony, the justice of this thrust.

Cried the Captain, with some of his old acrimony.

With regard to acrimony, however, there were two fallacies.

The heat and acrimony of verbal critics have exceeded description.

At present suspicion and acrimony reign, with disastrous results.

Hostility and acrimony, therefore, are not the right words.

Corneille, like our Dryden, felt the acrimony of literary irritation.

We girls rather shivered at the acrimony of the discussion.

It was that knowledge which gave acrimony to her speech.

Only up in Germany was there any peace from acrimony.

She spoke not with acrimony, but with grave severity.

"People have been known to refuse with less acrimony," said Morton.

"Yes," answered Miss Johnstone, her lips parting with acrimony.

Decided he, with acrimony, in the intervals of his whistling.

"That I know," said the young man, with crabbed acrimony.

This added enormously to the acrimony of the slavery controversy.

Much acrimony arose on both sides in consequence of this interference.

Their precise age and antiquity have been disputed with some acrimony.

That made Rosalind giggle, and eased the acrimony of the discussion.

There is acrimony in her tone, but laughter in her eyes.

It was a channel to his acrimony moderated through his philosophy.

"He is losing no time," observed Mark, acrimony in his tone.

She could be silent when people insisted, and silent without acrimony.

No pen can describe the acrimony Tim threw into this proposition.

The unhappy prisoner would reap the full benefit of her acrimony.

And with the last few words the voice increased in acrimony.

This conference also only served to increase the acrimony of the parties.

And upon this question the cabinet divided with more than usual acrimony.

The acrimony of the past was buried to a very large extent.

They were, on the other hand, continued with still greater acrimony.

Cushman was very much censured, and there was evidently some acrimony.

Neither had completely understood my argument, they attacked me with acrimony.

But I came to the government under circumstances calculated to generate peculiar acrimony.

He read the one with attention, and rebuked the other with acrimony.

It may even tend to raise higher the acrimony of your aversion to me.

Another and another followed, all speaking vehemently and with much acrimony.

"None the worse for that, I dare say," said Ernie with unusual acrimony.

The acrimony crept back.

I have debated in my mind with parliamentary acrimony about a choice of wedding-presents.

The acrimony of party strife at that time has never since been equalled.

Although he had repented of these follies, he still viewed them without acrimony.

Rousseau disputing with considerable acrimony about the opening and shutting of a window.

It was by this symptom of biting acrimony that her agitation showed itself.

The danger and acrimony of the contest united his whole party around him.

Do I speak with acrimony?

Each in turn has had its claims advocated with warmth and even acrimony.

The urine, sweat, and even the tears of old people, possess a peculiar acrimony.

Discussion went on, with less and less acrimony, all the rest of the day.

Earn big acrimony.

States are governed by reason and policy, and not by acrimony and weakness.

Wilmot with uncommon acrimony, attributed by himself to the influence of private spleen.

Court and the Tories, and helped to soften the acrimony of political warfare.

After tedious debate and much acrimony both were allowed a half vote to each delegate.

But pardon my acrimony.

Claude replied, trying not to be aware of the little note of acrimony in her voice.

Secondly, to prevent its access to the air, which so much increases its acrimony.

It shrinks much in drying and becomes darker, but does not lose its acrimony.

The result was a marked and sudden acrimony in the conduct of the campaign.

Early therefore in this year the disputes were renewed with greater acrimony than ever.

To this, perhaps, might have been traced the acrimony observable in the speech of Calhoun.

Too much acrimony has been given rise to already by the discussion of such topics.

Withal, in the acrimony of a long quarrel, its maintenance had become a point of honor.

He said: "It is wrong to waste the precious gift of time, on acrimony and division."

Madam answered with acrimony.

We all know how easy it is to turn obstinate and defend a pet theory with acrimony.