How To Use Acrimony In A Sentence

  • The acrimony of the dispute has shocked a lot of people.
  • The acrimony is the latest example of shattered alliances in the New York real-estate world. British Bank Is Sued Over Sale of 2 Buildings
  • The whole area was poisoned by anger and acrimony.
  • St. Paul cavorted to Christianity. He preached holy acrimony, which is another name for marriage.
  • She assailed all the Government measures with indiscriminating acrimony. The Virginians
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  • The survey did not go into reasons for the increase in acrimony.
  • Ministers have been accused of refusing to discuss the introduction of a lifesaving vaccine as negotiations over the promised injection for meningitis B descend into acrimony. Times, Sunday Times
  • I don't mean to suggest that they don't think that, but as I pointed out last week, the idea that the acrimony is a result of particular people - still less that it will stop if we elect Obama. "The last thing we need is a President who encourages festering racial controversies."
  • The whole partnership then dissolved into acrimony and mistrust and legal wrangling.
  • Large disparities in the contributions member nations were expected to make to the EU budget caused no small amount of acrimony.
  • It was a strangely subdued build-up to a fixture that has not been short of controversy, unseemly spats and acrimony in recent seasons. Times, Sunday Times
  • A rise in paralysis and acrimony is not going to comfort a bond market waiting to see whether we can make difficult decisions on spending cuts and tax hikes. Can business afford the Republican Party?
  • It was a match dripping in acrimony, disappointment and what might have been.
  • Exactly the kind of game you'd expect with the man who leads his profession in accomplishment and acrimony.
  • Might I suggest that there would be considerably less bilious acrimony in the comment section in threads such as have been posted in the last few days if people would kindly knock it off with the amphiboly already? Intelligent Design and Miracles - The Panda's Thumb
  • Weeks of amicable negotiations descended into bitter acrimony last night, with both sides blaming each other for the failure to reach an agreement. Times, Sunday Times
  • For this relationship is, in practice, fraught with mutual antagonism and conducted through mutual acrimony.
  • Despite this acrimony, however, the American officers' admiration for Continental forestry was undented.
  • Today's chaotic pattern of funding, administration, interference, cross purposes and acrimony is not serving the public well. Why Pay Twice? The Cost of Double Government
  • Today's heightened political acrimony is but a foretaste of the "grim Malthusian" politics ahead, with politicians increasingly trying to redistribute the fruits of a stagnant economy, loosing even more forces of stagnation. Technology = Salvation
  • This can lead to friction, acrimony and lack of co-operation between functional groups.
  • It's only recently and as a result of all the bitter acrimony that he realised that they can't sort it out.
  • Disease, displacement and alien acrimony caused these people to all but disappear from Tierra del Fuego.
  • The level of acrimony is so widespread and acute that it's impossible to dismiss those involved as disgruntled former employees, disillusioned leftists or self-seeking turncoats.
  • They have not infrequently been a source of acrimony between the authorities involved, as well as of wider problems.
  • The first festival I attended was by far the best, because the air was thick with bile and acrimony.
  • Long-term damage can be caused to children exposed to acrimony and bitterness in family breakdown.
  • Happy to relate, acrimony is often enhanced by sardonic humour.
  • Whether that will mean more or less acrimony between Quebec and the federal government remains to be seen.
  • Lawyers praised yesterday the speed with which the couple had sorted out their affairs and the lack of public acrimony. Times, Sunday Times
  • The lead-up to the meeting is bound to provoke further acrimony. Times, Sunday Times
  • As much rhubarb as may induce a daily evacuation, should be given to remove the colluvies of indigested materials from the bowels; which might otherwise increase the distress of the patient by the air it gives out in putrefaction, or by producing a diarrhoea by its acrimony; the putridity of the evacuations are in consequence of the total inability of the digestive powers; and their delay in the intestines, to the inactivity of that canal in respect to its peristaltic motions. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • Amid the acrimony, somebody actually published some data.
  • A brief detente and the hope for a lasting peace have given way to acrimony yet again.
  • In due course, traffic management became a village issue, acrimony flourished and, as the anti-speeders campaigned for road humps and chicanes, opposition hardened.
  • However, for the most part, the acrimony was abandoned at the side of the road and business proceeded with a fair wind.
  • Whatever the outcome of this particular dispute, though, these homes have to be built somewhere and the less acrimony with which it can be done the better.
  • Despite some brief acrimony, a year later nothing much had changed.
  • Today, thankfully, the acrimony is forgotten and only the coffee is bitter.
  • I really believe that it is better for couples to separate as amicably as possible and give their children a chance to grow up without daily misery and acrimony.
  • Of course a great row occurred as to who was to blame, and many arrests and trials took place, but there had been such an interchanging of cap numbers and other insignia that it was next to impossible to identify the guilty, and so much crimination and acrimony grew out of the affair that it was deemed best to drop the whole matter. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
  • If you remember the acrimony surrounding last year's'Are you beach body ready? Times, Sunday Times
  • Riven by internal feuds, the Byzantine ways of association politics have led to a tortuous pattern of new beginnings, only to be followed by stalemate and acrimony.
  • But contrary to popular belief, lawyers don't always fuel acrimony in divorce. Times, Sunday Times
  • But, whatever may have been the cause of your rheumatic disorder, the effects are still to be attended to; and as there must be a remaining acrimony in your blood, you ought to have regard to that, in your common diet as well as in your medicines; both which should be of a sweetening alkaline nature, and promotive of perspiration. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
  • And while Congress is consuming itself in partisan acrimony over the $60 billion, it is doing essentially nothing about the multitrillion dollar long-run deficit—which, as everyone should know by now, hinges on The Big Four: Social Security, medical care, defense and taxes. The Economic Silly Season Is Upon Us
  • Their first ended several years ago, undone in acrimony after DirecTV — then owned by the News Corporation — moved to use recording devices owned by a company that was also owned by News Corp. DirecTV Strikes Deal to Offer TiVo Recorder - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
  • But what should have been one of the publishing events of this year has now descended into astonishing depths of bitterness and acrimony.
  • It was a strangely subdued build-up to a fixture that has not been short of controversy, unseemly spats and acrimony in recent seasons. Times, Sunday Times
  • This book review was written with acrimony.
  • The resulting acrimony helped ensure that it would take a while to forge working alliances on the new council.
  • The brief acrimony forgotten, Sque turned her attention to the accessway that loomed in front of them. Lost And Found
  • Money can't buy you love, sang the Beatles but what's clear is it can certainly create a lot of acrimony where love once existed.
  • And then inevitably something would go wrong, and it would end in acrimony and sometimes in lawsuits.
  • And it was Charlie’s indirect responsibility that he committed suicide, thus ending that marriage in acrimony and despair. Patrick McGrath’s ‘Trauma’ « Tales from the Reading Room
  • For a long time during my teen years I actively cultivated my acrimony.
  • There were the first clear signs yesterday of that acrimony being played out in public, too. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was gratitude; —gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. Chapter XLIV
  • There was no acrimony, and no ill-will towards the national organisation.
  • That tactic, needless to say, leads to endless acrimony at the IWC's meetings.
  • The band split up earlier this year amid bitterness and acrimony.
  • And yet we've had so much acrimony over the past few years that the public has risen up against it.
  • In the past, especially during election time, the issue of money has raised unnecessary tension and acrimony.
  • (_To the_ 2ND PHYSICIAN) Come, let us begin the cure; and, through the exhilarating sweetness of harmony, let us dulcify, lenify, and pacify the acrimony of his spirits, which, I see, are ready to be inflamed. Monsieur De Pourceaugnac
  • Isn't it unsurprising how settling a lawsuit does nothing to settle the underlying acrimony that motivated it?
  • I recall the acrimony poured out towards Jews on this nasty little "current affairs" show after the Hezbollah and Hamas wars and how an audience purposely packed with a crowd of rentaMuslims who have not appeared in such numbers since, how strange made the then US Ambassador cry after a particularly vicious and orchestrated post 9-11 backlash set up by the extremists at the BBC troughers Gentlemans Club on same "current affairs" show. OPEN THREAD
  • The relationship has dissolved in acrimony as accusations are levelled by both sides.
  • The dispute was settled without acrimony.
  • The disagreement as to whether the original "excommunications" of the bishops of SSPX were valid is for Rome to decide not the episcopacy, not individual priests and not for semi-informed laymen. what needs to happen now is the acrimony, bile and abuse of members of the Society of St. Pius 10th needs to stop now, RIGHT NOW. They need to be re-incardinated asap. The validity of the original SSPX excommunications...
  • To those supporters of Jim Jefferies, the former manager who left amid scenes of acrimony last year, or former chairman Deans, he is a hate figure to be hounded and harried.
  • In the event it was a short-lived and unhappy venture, which ended in acrimony after only two years following a boardroom clash.
  • Right - eight years of foaming-at-the-mouth BusHitler hatred, but now when they're in control suddenly they think ending the acrimony is a good idea. "Na Na Na Na/Na Na Na Na/Hey Hey Hey/Good-bye."
  • This need not be a divorce full of acrimony but one with a great deal of residual affection. Times, Sunday Times

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