Tom and Mary had an acrimonious divorce and custody battle for their children.
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Acrimonious
//ˌæk.ɹɪˈməʊ.nɪ.əs//
Synonyms for "acrimonious" (87 found)
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3 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
52 translations across 23 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- жлъчен adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- хаплив adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- язвителен adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Catalan
2 entries- aspre adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- mordaç adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 唇槍舌劍嘅 /唇枪舌剑嘅 adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Czech
3 entries- ostrý adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- prudký adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- rozhořčený adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Danish
2 entries- bitter adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- fjendtlig adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Dutch
4 entries- acrimonieus adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- bits adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- bitsig adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- gemeen adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Finnish
1 entries- kitkerä adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
French
1 entries- acrimonieux adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Galician
1 entries- áspero adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Georgian
2 entries- მწარე adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- ღვარძლიანი adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
German
2 entries- bissig adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- erbittert adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Greek
4 entries- οξύς adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- οργισμένος adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- πικρός adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- πικρόχολος adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Hungarian
3 entries- csípős adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- maró adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- rosszmájú adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Italian
1 entries- acrimonioso adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Māori
1 entries- pūraurau adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- ایتی adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Polish
2 entries- kłótliwy adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- ostry adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Portuguese
1 entries- acrimonioso adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Romanian
1 entries- acrimonios adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Russian
2 entries- же́лчный adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- язви́тельный adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- gorak adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- jedak adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- ogorčen adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- zajedljiv adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Spanish
3 entries- cáustico adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- sarcástico adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
- áspero adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Swedish
1 entries- bitter adj (angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Divorce can put mutual friends of the divorcing couple in a difficult position, particularly if it's an acrimonious split.
Source: tatoeba (4672770)
The band's split was acrimonious.
Source: tatoeba (9997082)
The old man […] began to suffer in the body as well as the mind. He had formed the determination of setting out in person for Dumfriesshire, when, after having been dogged, peevish, and snappish to his clerks and domestics, to an unusual and almost intolerable degree, the acrimonious humours settled in a hissing-hot fit of the gout, which is a well-known tamer of the most froward spirits, […]
Source: wiktionary
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