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Example sentences for "acrimony"

Lexicographically close words:
acres; acri; acrid; acridity; acrimonious; acris; acrius; acrobat; acrobatic; acrobatics
  1. Sores, with eruption and sore throat, sometimes appear in one or both individuals immediately after marriage, and probably arise from the acrimony of the female secretions causing tenderness and ulceration of the parts.

  2. I was myself fully convinced of the rectitude of this opinion, and, in drawing up an account of the medicinal uses of Magnesia, had therefore suggested the impropriety of prescribing them where a bilious acrimony prevails.

  3. These then indicate such Medicines as cleanse the Primæ Viæ from the Contagious Particles, and other Crudities lodged in them, blunt the Acrimony of the Saline Particles, and promote the Regular Expulsion of the Perspirable Matter.

  4. The accuracy of the mere figures was not denied, but the inferences were disputed with such acrimony that the scientific battle commenced.

  5. The false strength of brandy or rum is rendered obvious by diluting the suspected liquor with water; the acrimony of the capsicum, and grains of paradise, or pepper, may then be readily discovered by the taste.

  6. This fraud is difficult of detection; but when tasted with attention, the pungency of such vinegar will be found to depend rather on acrimony than acidity.

  7. Now, what but blind and indiscriminating acrimony could dictate the above remarks?

  8. It is not easy to discover from what cause the acrimony of a scholiast can naturally proceed.

  9. These words, written in the third of the fifteen embargo months, reveal an acrimony not wholly one-sided.

  10. The acrimony of the old feud was as a trait bred in the bone.

  11. No they sometimes also derive their Origine from internal Causes, as the Acrimony of Humours, or their Malignant Quality; the Retention of a Splint of a Bone, and other things of the like Nature.

  12. The Corrosive Ulcer is that which by the Acrimony and Malignity of its Sanies, corrodes, makes hollow, corrupts and mortifies the Flesh.

  13. Theological hatred which forty years long had found vent in the exchange of acrimony between the ancient and the Reformed churches was now assuming other shapes.

  14. The acrimony of the relations between the English government and dominant party at the Hague was sensibly diminished.

  15. What would those Liberals do who would naturally rejoice in the disestablishment of the Church,--those members of the Lower House, who had always spoken of the ascendancy of Protestant episcopacy with the bitter acrimony of exclusion?

  16. The habitual and almost necessary acrimony of the defence creates acrimony in the attack.

  17. There has since been a great deal of acrimony displayed in discussions of the question as to who set Columbia on fire.

  18. When he was attacked in the House of Lords the Duke of Wellington rose in his defence, and rebuked the acrimony of his own friends.

  19. It may even tend to raise higher the acrimony of your aversion to me.

  20. He could not forbear a little acrimony on the impropriety of my interference, and I tacitly acquiesced in the censure.

  21. Every line is fresh from the writer’s mind, and written with an acrimony which accounts for much of its influence.

  22. But a knowledge of the truth would have increased your acrimony of feeling toward him whom you regarded as the chief obstacle, and this, at all hazards, I was resolved to avoid.

  23. The danger and acrimony of the contest united his whole party around him.

  24. The most effective speech delivered by the opposition was that made by the Bishop of Oxford; but it was marked by a party acrimony so intense as to weaken much the force of its eloquence.

  25. The arguments adopted were a repetition of all that had been formerly urged, diversified with a few new illustrations, and some acrimony of expression.

  26. His speech was devoid of that acrimony which pervades so generally the matter and the manner of the honourable member for Sheffield.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acrimony" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acerbity; acid; acidity; acridity; acrimony; animosity; animus; asperity; astringency; bile; bite; bitterness; choler; edge; feud; fury; gall; grip; harshness; keenness; poignancy; point; rage; rancor; resentment; rigor; roughness; sarcasm; severity; sharpness; soreness; sourness; spleen; sting; stringency; teeth; vehemence; vendetta; venom; violence; virulence; vitriol; wrath