acrimony

acrimonious | American Dictionary

acrimonious
adjective
us/ˌæk·rəˈmoʊ·ni·əs/
angry and including strong accusations:
After an acrimonious debate, the proposal was adopted.

acrimony

noun[ U ]us/ˈæk·rəˌmoʊ·ni/
The acrimony of a legal battle destroyed their friendship.

acrimonious | Business English

acrimonious
adjective
 formaluk /ˌækrɪˈməʊniəs/us
involving a lot of anger and arguments:
an acrimonious battle/debate/disputeTwo top executives at the company resigned after an acrimonious battle for control.
an acrimonious departure/split/takeoverThe corporate takeover led to an acrimonious split with Mr Murray who was forced out of the company.

Examples of acrimonious

acrimonious
A badly conducted strike, extremely acrimonious or negative, even when done for the right reasons may still result in patients feeling betrayed by the profession.
It is not particularly surprising that, today, public discussion on the war years remains emotional and acrimonious.
This was more the norm than those that were acrimonious or cold and unfriendly.
In the late 1920s the debate between the "mechanicians" and the "dialecticians" became rather acrimonious.
The lyrics are clearly devoid of the harshest, most acrimonious utterances; the song seems at times more a plea than an indictment.
The argument became increasingly concerned with vindication, as the debate became steadily more acrimonious.
Acrimonious dismissal of alternative points of view has maintained the dominance of this paradigm.
None the less, a great deal of acrimonious dispute, at local borough level, could be avoided if we actually found out what we can measure.
However, one theme that emerges from these acta is the often acrimonious relationship between the bishop and the cathedral priory.
This frustration led to a hardening of stance which unleashed an acrimonious politics.
The negotiations over reform of the international monetary system were prolonged and acrimonious.
But his proposed mechanism, natural selection of small differences, was the subject of more or less acrimonious dispute, which still persists in some quarters.
Relations between the army and this militia were acrimonious but manageable.
Perhaps because risk status was already so elevated, experiencing yet another acrimonious relationship did not add much to the prediction of conflict in teacher and peer relationships.
The rival theorists have engaged in long, and often acrimonious, arguments and, because the quest is for general theories, the battles rage around the validity of the theories.
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