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acrimonious
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synonyms: acerbic, choleric, irascible, splenetic, pugnacious ???
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Definition:1. Acrid; corrosive; as, acrimonious gall. [Archaic]2. Caustic; bitter-tempered, sarcastic; as, acrimonious dispute, language, temper.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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In a long, loud, acrimonious argument, he split with her.
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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The mockingbirds and the jays, engaged in their old feud for possession of the magnolia tree beneath her window, were bickering, the jays strident, acrimonious, the mockers sweet voiced and plaintive.
Margaret Mitchell. Gone with the Wind (1936)
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As the day wore on, the tone of the messages became more acrimonious and their content more ludicrous. The whole thing reached a pinnacle when the manager of the South Eastern Railway in Folkestone telegraphed the manager of the Britannic Steam Packer Company, also in Folkestone: QUI EST M. VERNIER. To this, the steamship manager shot back YOUR SCURRILOUS ALLEGATIONS SHALL NOT GO UNCHALLENGED.Michael Crichton. The Great Train Robbery, p283 (1975)
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And now there was an acrimonious madrigal, with parts sung in all quarters of the car. Nearly everybody, seemingly, had an atrocity story of something Billy Pilgrim had done to him in his sleep. Everybody told Billy Pilgrim to keep the hell away.
Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five (1968)
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loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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sometimes ordering her from the room, and always treating her with coldness and acrimony.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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