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acrimony
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    He attacked his opponent in highly acrimonious terms.
    acrimonious = angry
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    It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for 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.  (source)
    acrimony = anger
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    Too often she betrayed this, by the undue vent she gave to a spiteful antipathy she had conceived against little Adele: pushing her away with some contumelious epithet if she happened to approach her; sometimes ordering her from the room, and always treating her with coldness and acrimony.  (source)
    acrimony = anger and bitterness
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    We could tell, however, when debate became more acrimonious than professional, but this was from watching lawyers other than our father. I never heard Atticus raise his voice in my life, except to a deaf witness.  (source)
    acrimonious = angry
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    She retorted with acrimony:— "She must work, since she eats."  (source)
    acrimony = anger and bitterness
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    While we were standing in the hall waiting for the girls to come down and Rex and Mrs. Champion had drawn away from us, talking, acrimoniously, in low voices, Mulcaster said, "I say, let's slip away from this ghastly dance and go to Ma Mayfield's."†  (source)
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    And now there was an acrimonious madrigal, with parts sung in all quarters of the car.  (source)
    acrimonious = bitter or angry
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    Aunt Penniman, however, took no account of it; she spoke even with a touch of acrimony.  (source)
    acrimony = anger or bitterness
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    The inhabitants of our valley, for instance, feel that it is 'not done' to be inhospitable to strangers, to dispute acrimoniously, or to strive for priority amongst one another.†  (source)
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    Relying on bottled oxygen as an aid to ascent is a practice that's sparked acrimonious debate ever since the British first took experimental oxygen rigs to Everest in 1921.  (source)
    acrimonious = angry and bitter
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    "Tibby had better first wonder what he'll do," retorted Helen; and that topic was resumed, but with acrimony.  (source)
    acrimony = anger and bitterness
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    She was not above the inconsistency of charging fate, rather than herself, with her own misfortunes; but she inveighed so acrimoniously against love-matches that Lily would have fancied her own marriage had been of that nature, had not Mrs. Bart frequently assured her that she had been "talked into it"—by whom, she never made clear.†  (source)
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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.  (source)
    acrimonious = angry
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