Another bitter contention that is confusing some, and disgusting others, is the acrimonious strife between users and non-users of proprietary medicines.
If our medical brethren and the laity could read some of the acrimonious discussions on the question of using adjuncts, they would certainly be impressed with the exactness (?
The goodly show of dainties in the shops, however, belie his somewhat acrimonious description of a Spanish reception.
The atmosphere of the post-office, at any rate, makes a Catalan rasping as an east wind, acrimonious as a sloe-berry.
Unfortunately Lord Palmerston did not display the same moderation, and his Notes continued to be asacrimonious as ever.
No engagement of the war has given rise to more acrimonious censure and crimination than Seven Pines.
Jefferson did not speak a word, though Franklin cheered him as he saw him "writhing under the acrimonious criticism of some of its parts.
The contest was one of the most acrimonious in our national history.
We read in the treatise of Plutarch against the Epikurean Kolotes, an acrimonious invective against Epikurus and his followers, for recommending a scheme of life such as to withdraw men from active political functions (Plutarch, adv.
Perhaps, Illustrious Sir, the acrimonious judgment passed by a celebrated northern journal upon you in particular, and the Germans in general, has rather indisposed you towards English poetry as well as criticism.
He had a great reputation as a Greek scholar, and was a somewhat acrimonious critic of rival scholars, especially Bishop Blomfield.
The patriarchate at length found it necessary to offer some concessions, but these appeared illusory to the Bulgarians, and long and acrimonious discussions followed.
The sound of his acrimonious voice or venomous laughter grated on Reb Sender's nerves, but he bore him absolutely no ill-will.
A snappish whispered conference ensued, the trend of which was at once betrayed in an acrimonious retort by Shiphrah: "Just keep your foolish nose out of my affairs, will you?
I thought of my victory over the acrimonious photographer at the railroad station.
Sir Richard Crofts, the object of Delamere's hatred and detestation, was the subject of those acrimonious reflections that his respect for his father and mother prevented his throwing on them.
Acerbities between Vienna and Belgrade were growing moreacrimonious and menacing from hour to hour.
Acrimonious debate in Parliament on the shells question was inevitable.
Doctor von Bethmann Hollweg quite legitimately accounted the arrangement of the Kiel love-feast as an achievement of no mean magnitude, viewed in the light of the ten acrimonious years which preceded it.
He had never made a personal attack on any of his late colleagues, nor can I discover any unkind or acrimonious word used about them.
Mr. Plunket from the Front Opposition Bench defended Lord Randolph, but the Irish continued to attack him all the evening in an acrimonious fashion.
Inflammation of the passage not unfrequently arises, to a greater or less extent, from the acrimonious condition of the urine.
Any solid substance, though by no meansacrimonious in its quality, may act as an exciting cause, as by pressure or friction.
After a short but acrimonious debate, both measures were passed and signed by President Jackson on the same day, March 2.
In the midst of the acrimonious dispute over the Dred Scott decision, came one of the worst business panics which ever afflicted the country.
The treaty, duly drawn in 1846, was ratified by the Senate after an acrimonious debate.
Only after a long and acrimonious debate did enough states ratify the instrument to put it into effect.
The method of selecting federal officers and members of Congress also produced an acrimonious debate which revealed how deep-seated was the distrust of the capacity of the people to govern themselves.
This root is a very useful pectoral, and excellently softens acrimonious humours, at the same time that it proves gently detergent: and this account is warranted by experience.
As a mild refrigerant juice, it is preferred where anacrimonious state of the fluids prevails, indicated by prurient eruptions upon the skin, or in what has been called the hot scurvy.
This plant has the general virtues of an emollient medicine; and proves serviceable in a thin acrimonious state of the juices, and where the natural mucus of the intestines is abraded.
These qualities point out its use in hot bilious or inflammatory distempers, and a thinacrimonious state of the fluids.
In truth, he was a Jacobite only because he was the most intolerant and acrimonious of Whigs.
It was refuted in many keen pamphlets; it was turned into doggrel rhymes; and it was left undefended even by the boldest and most acrimonious libellers among the nonjurors.
But the leaders of his party, apparently, did not wish for an ally of so acrimonious and turbulent a spirit.
It has seemed strange to many that a Prince of high spirit and acrimonious temper should have treated servants, who had so deeply wronged him, with a kindness hardly to be expected from the meekest of human beings.
It attracted, at the time, little notice, but was, after the lapse of several generations, the subject of a very acrimonious controversy.
Then, too politic to draw his host into an acrimonious argument that might end in straining their now cordial and mutually helpful friendship, he observed, looking at his cigar: "May I ask what you pay for these?
Often slender islets rose from the river; and then heated, chattering, often acrimonious discussions ensued among the men as to the proper channel to take.
But touching the nature of these institutions there has been much dishonest and acrimonious controversy.
He lived to be known as one of the most acrimonious and pertinacious enemies of the House of Stuart and of the Tory party.
The President's decision to send delegates to the Panama Congress of 1826 raised a storm of acrimonious debate and brought the Administration's enemies into closer unison.
Acrimonious were the legal struggles fought over infringements and rights of way, and, in the first years of the building of the lines to all parts of this country, real warfare was waged by the workers of competing companies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acrimonious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
