as in angry
having or showing deep-seated resentment
an acrimonious parting between the two former friends
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Recent Examples of acrimonious
Around $180 million in spending from candidates and outside groups fueled an intense and acrimonious race that saw Collins trailing in the polls up to Election Day.
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Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
Harrison’s hiring, built on connections and made in the wake of an acrimonious separation from Nelson, Cuban’s only previous GM, was supposed to change all that.
—C. Clark, D. Aldridge, S. Amick, F. Katz, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
But after seasons of misery with the New York Giants and an acrimonious end to his time in New Jersey, this season has been a dream come true for Barkley with the Kansas City Chiefs standing between him and NFL immortality.
—Ben Morse, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
The startup is competing with AI firms such as OpenAI, which Musk co-founded before an acrimonious split with that company.
—Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 29 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for acrimonious
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Parents and students said a substitute teacher chased, choked and hit a student after becoming angry in a fourth grade classroom at Meadowview.—
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Late in the second half, with Arminia three goals down, the travelling fans were so angry that Fabian Klos, the club legend from whom Corboz inherited the captaincy, had to persuade them not to invade the pitch.—
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No rancorous divorces or business disputes, restraining orders or recent financial trouble — nothing connecting him to the two men accused of his murder.—
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As Williams exited, a rancorous round of boos accompanied the two-time National League Reliever of the Year’s walk to the dugout.—
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Asking for fairness One lingering sore spot around remote work is the disparity between different state workers.—
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Rage, fatigue, mood swings, memory loss, hot flashes, itchy ears, inability to sleep, loss of libido, hair thinning, depression, weight gain, sore knees, night sweats, incontinence.—
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Is this a cynical attempt to rescue their party from a political free fall?—
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And so Lee’s reinterpretation strains to leave us on a high instead of a low, as befits the finale of an update so compellingly eager to flip the script on one of Kurosawa’s most cynical films.—
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Still, Levi isn’t bitter and blames the reporter for trying to use Gunn to publicly shame him.—
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Where Silverman radically departs from Strindberg’s bitter play is in their portrait of Tekla, who is a spikily delightful self-starter instead of the idiot-monster of the original.—
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Bemused tourists attempt to shuffle through the acrid red and blue flare smoke.—
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That day, the air in midtown Manhattan was choked with acrid wildfire smoke from Canada, and the sky was a macabre shade of orange.—
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Sometimes there's also a lack of support—if partners or family members don’t share the mental load, new moms can feel isolated, unappreciated, or resentful, worsening feelings of depression.—
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Lesser powers that find themselves under the dominion of a great power against their wishes can be resentful and rebellious.—
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“Acrimonious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrimonious. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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