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
• Boebert seems to relish the fighting and the acrimony as the ends rather than the means.
  — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
• Many voters were tired of the chaos and acrimony of the Trump years.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2022
• 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
• And still the bedraggled franchise remains the butt of jokes and source of acrimony.
  — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
• 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
• There has always been huge acrimony in the making of this film.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 June 2017
• As the campaign hurled toward the finish line, the acrimony on both sides boiled over.
  — Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 1 Sep. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Elliott sticks out both for the volume of its campaigns as well as for their acrimony.
  — Cara Lombardo, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2018
• But the acrimony over the election has seemingly since boiled over.
  — Mark Zandi For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 22 Dec. 2021
• The tabloids scoured the story for evidence of acrimony.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• 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
• Money is one compelling way to soothe that kind of town-gown acrimony.
  — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2022
• Look for the acrimony at the end, when lawmakers have dispensed with much of the major business.
  — Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2023
• If there was acrimony between the team and Ayton, it was buried last fall.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2022
• But space has the ability to put all the stress and acrimony into perspective.
  — Robert Gebelhoff, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2019
• But since Trump’s election, the acrimony between the two men has grown.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2017
• Forget the trend, in recent years, for trying to keep any acrimony under the radar.
  — Claire Cohen, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2023
• The acrimony is shared among some of top foreign allies of the United States.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 28 Aug. 2021
• But these are some of the names that ignite acrimony among Wisconsin sports fans.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2023
• That quickly vanished in acrimony and threats from both sides.
  — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 9 June 2019
• None of those local projects have been built without acrimony.
  — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• But the euphoria turned cynical and the acrimony on both sides grew more heated.
  — Jina Moore, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017

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