(n.) A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants.
(n.) Sharpness or severity, as of language or temper; irritating bitterness of disposition or manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
(2) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
(3) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
(4) The sniping followed an article by Cameron in the Sunday Times , in which he called on the coalition to provide a "strong, decisive and united government" in the wake of acrimonious splits over Lords reform, warning that the public will not stand for "division and navel-gazing" at a time of social and economic insecurity.
(5) People didn't see, because it was so chaotic and acrimonious, that the Copenhagen accord turned out to be a strong platform for going forward.
(6) Exchanges between the parties became increasingly acrimonious in recent days ahead of the anticipated announcement.
(7) With the studies of Bordet, Metchnikoff's protégé, the essential resolution of the acrimonious debate was offered.
(8) Those talks appeared to come close to clinching a historic deal but the talks broke up in early hours of 10 November, amid some acrimony over who was responsible for the failure.
(9) Today's announcement could be seen as a victory for the ITV management and board's strategic vision over that of the spurned Tony Ball, the former BSkyB boss who was being lined up as the company's new chief executive until negotiations broke down acrimoniously last month.
(10) The result, after a series of fairly acrimonious meetings in Geneva and Paris last year, is three separate initiatives: the Accord, which involves more than 150 largely European brands; the Alliance, set up by US brands; and a joint effort by the UN and the Bangladeshi government.
(11) During a 90-minute hearing, MacDonald emphasised that it was their son who was suffering the most from this public and acrimonious custody battle.
(12) Momentum Hastings seems pleasantly free of the kind of dogmatic, acrimonious squabbles that have recently engulfed the movement at national level.
(13) The acrimonious battle, which the NUJ has branded a £4m “pension robbery” , will see FT journalists go out on a 24-hour strike for the first time in 30 years on Thursday if crunch talks fail.
(14) However, there was an acrimonious split when Omar al-Shishani , a Georgian-born Chechen who had previously served in the US-trained Georgian army, decided to merge the group with Isis.
(15) An evening that promised so much for West Ham United ended in disappointment, acrimony and a dash of farce, with Slaven Bilic sent to the stands after contesting one too many of Adrien Jaccottet’s decisions in the closing stages and Astra Giurgi seizing control of this Europa League third-round qualifier thanks to a comical own goal from Angelo Ogbonna.
(16) Acrimony over the Senate report hangs over the relationship between the CIA and the committee overseeing it.
(17) There has been an acrimonious debate about trends in inequality in health in the U.K. over the last couple of years.
(18) That friendship ended acrimoniously when Jackson outbid McCartney when the Beatles' publishing catalogue came up for sale in 1985 – essentially, Jackson now owned all of McCartney's 1960s songs.
(19) The acrimonious battle, which the NUJ has branded a £4m “ pension robbery ”, follows Japanese group Nikkei’s £844m takeover of FT Group last year.
(20) Preparatory talks last month in Bangkok ended in acrimonious squabbles .
Enmity
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
(n.) A state of opposition; hostility.
Example Sentences:
(1) By any measure Poland’s recent history is one of triumph It was a war that was as much personal as it was political, with enmities that had been stewing for a decade erupting as the lid of communist rule was lifted.
(2) Their mutual enmity toward the West would in the end triumph over any scruples of that nature, as we see graphically in Iraq today.
(3) When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know.” Red Notice: How I Became Putin’s No.1 Enemy is published on 5 February by Transworld Out in the cold: Vladimir Putin’s biggest enemies 1 Barack Obama Putin’s enmity towards Obama is ideological rather than personal.
(4) It’s an incredibly scary feeling when you’re exposed to anyone’s raw feelings and enmity.
(5) This travel ban will instigate enmity and grudge between the two nations,” he said.
(6) Cameron's move promptly earned him the enmity of the centre-right powerbrokers in the EU, notably Angela Merkel, the German chancellor.
(7) The sectarian enmity that festered during the war years has been reignited by the war in Syria, which pitches a Sunni majority against an Alawite minority with links to Shia Islam .
(8) The ayatollah offered his gift as a "symbolic action to serve as a reminder of the importance of valuing human beings, of peaceful coexistence, of cooperation and mutual support, and avoidance of hatred, enmity and blind religious prejudice".
(9) His dalliance during the 1990s with Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir has left a lasting enmity with many leaders in the Dinka community, South Sudan's largest tribe, from which Kiir hails.
(10) The Polish PM added: “Some leaders in Europe believe that everything and anything can be bought with money and I said that that is not our opinion last night.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tusk to Polish government: ‘Be careful of the bridges you burn’ Szydło, whose rightwing Eurosceptic Law and Justice party has nursed a long and bitter enmity with Tusk , nominated a rival candidate for European council president but did not receive any support from the rest of the EU.
(11) The normalisation of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba ends decades of enmity that reached their nadir of at the height of the cold war.
(12) In her latest book, Family Breakdown: Helping Children to Hang on to Both Parents , to be published in June, she advocates two enmity-free households, working together, to make the best of a bad job for children when their parents opt to go their separate ways.
(13) He shared his mentor's foreign policy goals and his enmity of Islamists.
(14) For years on both sides of the ocean, groups of hardliners have tried to present to their people unrealistic and fearful images of various nations and cultures in order to turn their differences into disagreements, their disagreements into enmities and their enmities into fears,” he said in a statement in the New York Times .
(15) There's the enmity between husband and wife flung together in a loveless marriage expressed in a series of caustic asides to the audience, and the idiocy of Lord Are, who bears all the hallmarks of the fops Restoration audiences loved to laugh at.
(16) I entered Germany with a feeling of enmity, disgust at what they’d done during the war, but I soon realised they were no different to any other nation.
(17) You can't overstate the enmity between the two parties, and Gordon Brown has personally devoted much of his political career trying to beat the nationalists into the ground.
(18) Erdoğan, speaking in the eastern city of Gaziantep, said that a ground operation was needed to defeat Isis – sidestepping accusations that he is unwilling to allow Kurds in Turkey to help their embattled kinfolk in Syria or to deploy the army across the border to fight Isis because of the country’s historic enmity towards Kurdish separatists – in addition to ongoing peace negotiations with them.
(19) But Seagal’s outspoken support for Putin and his policies have earned the enmity of the Ukrainian authorities.
(20) Explaining the motives for stirring up old enmities, Cercas tells the old man: “I just want to talk to you for a while, so I can tell what really happened, or your version of what happened.