How to Use acrimony in a Sentence

acrimony

noun

• The dispute began again with increased acrimony.
• How to divvy up the costs has been a source of acrimony in the past.
  — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 5 July 2022
• And for fans, the worst part might be that acrimony is here to stay.
  — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Dec. 2017
• Many voters were tired of the chaos and acrimony of the Trump years.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2022
• Boebert seems to relish the fighting and the acrimony as the ends rather than the means.
  — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
• The restraint shown by OPEC+ is in stark contrast to the acrimony of a year ago.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
• Measures to curb the virus have also been the cause of acrimony.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2020
• Is there a nicer way to get my point across without the acrimony?
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
• The bill is a case study in the acrimony that pervades the nation’s divides.
  — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2021
• But if all this combines to make the game better, the acrimony will have been worth it.
  — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2022
• And still the bedraggled franchise remains the butt of jokes and source of acrimony.
  — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
• The Farm Bill now moves to the House floor, where the acrimony is likely to continue.
  — Caitlin Dewey, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• Despite the signing of the agreement on the name dispute, there was acrimony about the deal on both sides of the border.
  — Niki Kitsantonis, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2018
• As the lockout dragged into a fourth month, the acrimony between the sides threatened to damage the long-term health of the sport.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
• The decision — on a 5-2 vote — came amid acrimony that has come to mark the court in recent years.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2017
• As the campaign hurled toward the finish line, the acrimony on both sides boiled over.
  — Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 1 Sep. 2020
• But since Trump’s election, the acrimony between the two men has grown.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2017
• Perhaps that's why Still Star-Crossed goes out of its way not to deal with racial acrimony.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 1 June 2017
• The acrimony is shared among some of top foreign allies of the United States.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 28 Aug. 2021
• If there was acrimony between the team and Ayton, it was buried last fall.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2022
• There has always been huge acrimony in the making of this film.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 June 2017
• The acrimony reached a fever pitch after Khan’s arrest in May.
  — Mehdi Hasan, NBC News, 26 July 2023
• While there's been discourse over the statue, the rhetoric thus far hasn't reached the level of acrimony seen in New Orleans.
  — Jr Ball, NOLA.com, 2 June 2017
• The film takes us through 25 years of winsome acrimony between these two.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• After two weeks of public acrimony, Emanuel has agreed to speed up construction of the three gates, the source said.
  — Bill Ruthhart, chicagotribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• The fight over finances has at times boiled over into acrimony in court between the two camps.
  — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• The lack of a hard deadline has fed into the acrimony and distrust between the two parties.
  — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
• Forget the trend, in recent years, for trying to keep any acrimony under the radar.
  — Claire Cohen, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2023
• The coalition ended in acrimony, with the FDP failing to breach the five-percent threshold for entry into the Bundestag.
  — Paul Hockenos, Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2017
• The acrimony surrounding the leading candidates and concerns about their age have clearly begun to compete with the greater interests of the country, Biden will explain.
  — Julie Garel, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024