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
  • In the end, the band didn’t break up out of acrimony.
    — David Hill, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2025
  • That is not to say that there wasn’t acrimony.
    — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 May 2026
  • Is there a nicer way to get my point across without the acrimony?
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
  • This is a breath of fresh air in the midst of all the acrimony that’s come over the air in recent times.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 29 Jan. 2025
  • There was no handshake at the end of that match, and not because of the serve acrimony.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • 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
  • Money is one compelling way to soothe that kind of town-gown acrimony.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Measures to curb the virus have also been the cause of acrimony.
    — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Did the split cause any acrimony between you?
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 14 Sep. 2025
  • In that way lies madness, or at least chronic acrimony.
    — Anna Holmes, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Elliott sticks out both for the volume of its campaigns as well as for their acrimony.
    — Cara Lombardo, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2018
  • Boebert seems to relish the fighting and the acrimony as the ends rather than the means.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • 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 bill is a case study in the acrimony that pervades the nation’s divides.
    — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2021
  • As the campaign hurled toward the finish line, the acrimony on both sides boiled over.
    — Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 1 Sep. 2020
  • If there was acrimony between the team and Ayton, it was buried last fall.
    — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2022
  • And still the bedraggled franchise remains the butt of jokes and source of acrimony.
    — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The film takes us through 25 years of winsome acrimony between these two.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • What was scheduled to be a one-day meeting ended in acrimony after three days -- with no deal in sight.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 6 July 2021
  • But the acrimony over the election has seemingly since boiled over.
    — Mark Zandi For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Either way, for a union that promised so much to end in such acrimony should be a source of regret to both the club and the player.
    — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Forget the trend, in recent years, for trying to keep any acrimony under the radar.
    — Claire Cohen, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Sia's contentious divorce just reached a whole new level of acrimony.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
  • But these are some of the names that ignite acrimony among Wisconsin sports fans.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The lack of a hard deadline has fed into the acrimony and distrust between the two parties.
    — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • 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

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