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
Starting with fawning platitudes, the relationship between the world's richest man and the world's most powerful man has come to an acrimonious end.
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Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
This could seek to avoid a repeat of the acrimonious conclusion to the previous summit in Canada back in 2018 when Trump, during his first term in office, retracted the U.S.′ support for the joint statement.
—Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 16 June 2025
The Trump-Newsom relationship – long and often acrimonious, but lately less so – is now moving to a new level of public confrontation that has the nation on edge.
—Zac Anderson, USA Today, 10 June 2025
Social media exploded with hot takes from all over the political spectrum Thursday amid the very public and acrimonious split between President Trump and Elon Musk.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 6 June 2025
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Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
This could seek to avoid a repeat of the acrimonious conclusion to the previous summit in Canada back in 2018 when Trump, during his first term in office, retracted the U.S.′ support for the joint statement.
—Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 16 June 2025
The Trump-Newsom relationship – long and often acrimonious, but lately less so – is now moving to a new level of public confrontation that has the nation on edge.
—Zac Anderson, USA Today, 10 June 2025
Social media exploded with hot takes from all over the political spectrum Thursday amid the very public and acrimonious split between President Trump and Elon Musk.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for acrimonious
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Many players, including some former Huskies, were drafted much higher and came off angry about dropping.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
26 June 2025
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Republican lawmakers were also angry when the Southern Association warned that a 2021 presidential search at Florida State University may violate accrediting standards.—
Scott Travis,
Sun Sentinel,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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Even as the pair’s relationship grew rancorous, the company kept growing, reaching revenue of just over $700 million in 2018.—
Phoebe Liu,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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The accompanying article described a rancorous public hearing at which representatives from the municipal unions and minority communities denounced the mayor’s proposals for mass layoffs in the city’s workforce and deep cuts in its public education and social service programs.—
Rolling Stone,
Rolling Stone,
16 June 2025
Adjective
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My feet are a bit achy and the tops of my shoulders a little sore to the touch, but spirits are still high.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2025
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Take in views of the world’s largest volcanic caldera at Mount Aso and soothe sore muscles in volcanic sand baths and onsens.—
Jen Murphy,
Outside Online,
18 June 2025
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Mamdani proposes to pay for these splendid gifts to the city’s voters by raising taxes even further on the city’s top income earners, in the cynical belief that those who make up his tax base are stuck there, cannot flee, and are thus cows to be helplessly milked.—
The Editors,
National Review,
25 June 2025
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Too often, leaders are stuck between moral maximalism and cynical cost-cutting.—
HEC Paris Insights,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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Pashinyan was the focus of protests last year by tens of thousands of demonstrators after Armenia agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan and to normalize relations between the neighbors and bitter rivals.—
Avet Demourian,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2025
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But the two mainstays of the game are far from bitter rivals.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
27 June 2025
Adjective
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As a sanitation worker in New York City for almost two decades, Mr. Martin is well accustomed to tossing bags of acrid, leaky garbage from the curb into the back of a truck.—
Emma G. Fitzsimmons,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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Sauza Signature Blue Blanco: An unexpected combination of sweet and acrid in Sauza’s blanco struck some of our tasters as strange, and other contenders struck a better balance.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
13 May 2025
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The grief of this loss has left him unengaged with his new life, resentful of Olga for her busy military career surveilling orbital debris, and uninterested in making friends.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
17 June 2025
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This is because, little under a year after being handed a landslide majority by the U.K. electorate, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government is deeply unpopular and thrashing around for ways to appease a surly and resentful public.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
11 June 2025
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“Acrimonious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrimonious. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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