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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
acrimonious
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an acrimonious exchangeformal (= in which people show their anger and criticize each other)
▪ The newspaper article led to a series of acrimonious exchanges between leading scientists.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
debate
▪ There followed a public and acrimonious debate between representatives of solicitors and barristers on the issue of rights of audience.
▪ This demand is actually the cause of acrimonious debate in the London area.
▪ The decision comes after ten years of uncertainty and often acrimonious debate.
▪ After what was often an acrimonious debate the 1985 Local Government Act ultimately emerged.
dispute
▪ This had all the makings of another long-running acrimonious dispute, when again wider political events quite unexpectedly overtook the controversy.
▪ An acrimonious dispute between the two houses greeted the announcement of the figures.
▪ The Daily Record revealed that an acrimonious dispute over cigarette sponsorship was splitting public opinion.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an acrimonious divorce
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After an acrimonious and close battle, Guinness emerged narrowly as the victor.
▪ In years past, state and federal police have had a particularly acrimonious relationship.
▪ She unexpectedly triggered an acrimonious conclusion to the conversation when she told Bernon she would pray for him.
▪ Talks about a future role at Old Trafford had collapsed in acrimonious circumstances.
▪ The book reveals an the exchange of acrimonious letters between Diana and her father-in-law.
▪ The vote transcended party divisions, in notable contrast to the acrimonious partisanship that preceded the climactic moment.
▪ There followed a public and acrimonious debate between representatives of solicitors and barristers on the issue of rights of audience.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acrimonious

Acrimonious \Ac"ri*mo"ni*ous\, a. [Cf. LL. acrimonious, F. acrimonieux.]

  1. Acrid; corrosive; as, acrimonious gall. [Archaic]
    --Harvey.

  2. Caustic; bitter-tempered' sarcastic; as, acrimonious dispute, language, temper.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
acrimonious

1610s, "acrid," from French acrimonieux, from Medieval Latin acrimoniosus, from Latin acrimonia "sharpness" (see acrimony). Of dispositions, debates, etc., from 1775. Related: Acrimoniously; acrimoniousness.\n

Wiktionary
acrimonious

a. angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies: bitter; mean-spirited; sharp in language or tone.

WordNet
acrimonious

adj. marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce" [syn: bitter]

Usage examples of "acrimonious".

The bill came before the house of lords on the 2nd of February, when it was opposed by Lord Brougham, in a speech of great length, and in an acrimonious spirit.

His speech was very moderate, although it might have appeared that he was guided by some acrimonious feeling in selecting Lord Glenelg for attack.

A warm and acrimonious debate was maintained by the Earl of Ripon, the Duke of Wellington, and other opposition peers on the one hand, and Lord Melbourne and the lord chancellor on the other.

The discussions so long existing on the question of education received, however, a new impetus, and became more acrimonious than before.

The address in the commons was ultimately agreed to after a most acrimonious debate, protracted by the Irish members and their opponents far beyond the limits usual on such occasions.

Notwithstanding these weary debates upon Irish affairs, the house of commons was obliged to participate in another as acrimonious as any of the former.

In 1851 they were the persistent and acrimonious opponents of freedom, religious, political, and commercial, and by their eloquence stimulated those who sympathised with them, and incensed those who believed that a great economical victory had been accomplished by the free-trade legislation of Sir Robert Peel, which was irreversible.

I for one think it behooves us to find a more fitting way to salute Rome and Romulus than acrimonious and ill-mannered meetings of the Senate.

With their singleness of purpose and ability to mentally manipulate their allies the Amplitur an advantage had which the acrimonious members of the Weave could not hope to counter.

I could only assume that Ellison and this producer had had some acrimonious dealings in the past.

As time went on, I ran into many people who had had acrimonious dealings with Harlan Ellison.

It is impossible to follow the intricate and acrimonious quarrels of the eleven days which succeeded until on December 16, upon the eleventh ballot, R.

Shebbeare, a public writer, who, in a series of printed letters to the people of England, had animadverted on the conduct of the ministry in the most acrimonious terms, stigmatized some great names with all the virulence of censure, and even assaulted the throne itself with oblique insinuation and ironical satire.

The ministers, by way of reprisal, influenced the house of commons to pass some acrimonious resolutions against the states-general.

Despite the acrimonious disputes between them, the Let It Be sessions merged with very little gap into sessions for what was to become their next released album, Abbey Road.