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acrimoniously

/ak-ruh-moh-nee-uhs/US // ˌæk rəˈmoʊ ni əs //UK // (ˌækrɪˈməʊnɪəs) //

争吵地,争论不休,尖锐地,争执地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature, speech, behavior, etc.: an acrimonious answer; an acrimonious dispute.

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Examples

  • School Board sessions on reopening regularly turned acrimonious during the past 11 months, often stretching to the early hours of the morning — and just as often without resulting in a consensus.

  • For Sinovac, the bribery cases have had little visible impact except to exacerbate an acrimonious shareholder struggle that has frozen trade of its stock on Nasdaq since February 2019.

  • "Hain't got no business stirrin' us up like this for nothin'," said Atwell, acrimoniously.

  • I do not mean to intimate that the subject absolutely and acrimoniously annoyed our hero.

  • Dr. Sutherland chivalrously assumed the sole authorship, and was acrimoniously attacked by some of his professional brethren.

  • They carried on the parliamentary war, not less acrimoniously than when they were a majority, but somewhat more artfully.

  • Their voices, lowered at first, rose acrimoniously; almost they penetrated to the silent room beyond.