How to Use acrimonious in a Sentence

acrimonious

adjective

• He went through an acrimonious divorce.
• Use up gobs of time on acrimonious debates about whether others are using their guides properly.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
• Brown has had acrimonious relationships with several women in his life.
  — Robert Klemko, SI.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• The world of politics is filled with messy local races, acrimonious small-town battles, contested elections and quixotic campaigns.
  — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2019
• The vote followed a fiery, and sometimes acrimonious, debate in which some lawmakers directly attacked the prime minister.
  — NBC News, 4 Sep. 2019
• By the time the film was released, however, the claim that the homeschoolers had found the dinosaur had become the subject of acrimonious dispute in the world of creationist fossil hunting.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2019
• For years, Poland has been locked in an acrimonious dispute with the E.U. over human rights and the rule of law.
  — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
• The end of his first go-around in Salt Lake City could be described as acrimonious.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 June 2021
• All-Pro joined the Chiefs after a rather acrimonious split with the Jets a couple weeks ago.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 1 Nov. 2020
• While the business seemed to work for a time, the two sides had an acrimonious split last year when Sephora hopped over to Kohl’s, ending the deal.
  — Tiffany Ap, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2022
• Hill and her husband are in the midst of an acrimonious divorce.
  — Maryclaire Dale, SFChronicle.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• His time in Pittsburgh came to an acrimonious end after he was benched for the final game of the team’s season in 2018.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2022
• The two sides have engaged in a very public and acrimonious fight with billions of dollars at stake on each side.
  — Tim Higgins, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
• WhistlePig founder Raj Bhakta parted ways with the rye whiskey brand in 2019, the result of an acrimonious split that forced him out of the company.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2023
• But after an acrimonious split in 1991, the two didn't speak to one another for nine years.
  — CBS News, 17 Feb. 2022
• The punitive part of the process became largely acrimonious, sources said.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2022
• The divorce description is apt as the whole thing reads as a pretty acrimonious breakup.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 23 Jan. 2023
• The announcement put Walgreens at the center of one of the city’s most acrimonious debates.
  — Rachel Swan, Danielle Echevarria, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Oct. 2021
• But as the Cold War ended, Southeast Asia worked hard to move beyond this acrimonious past.
  — Huong Le Thu, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
• The White House has been monitoring the acrimonious contract talks closely and urging all sides to come to a deal.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
• You’re now locked into to what can be a very acrimonious process with a player who is essential to your present and near-term future.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• But the project brought Bacharach and David’s long collaboration to an acrimonious end.
  — Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 22 Jan. 2024
• There’s lots of pleasantly acrimonious banter, much of it in French.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
• Despite the uproar in the press, what took place at UW is more like a conscious uncoupling than an acrimonious divorce.
  — Michael Poliakoff, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• The victims had the bad luck of being pitted against Leasure’s friends in acrimonious divorces.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• So, a new and acrimonious problem is created before the last problem was put to bed.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2022
• They were involved in an acrimonious split that ended in divorce in 2016.
  — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Apr. 2021
• An acrimonious fight between the city and labor unions followed.
  — Mark Davidson, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2023
• The Shivers, who are locked in an acrimonious divorce and custody battle over their boys, share a vacation home in the Bahamas.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2023
• The lawsuit was the latest twist in the acrimonious relationship between Trump and Cohen, who was a key witness in the hush money case that saw Trump convicted on 34 felony counts.
  — Ivana Saric, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024