ACRIMONY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acrimony mean? 

• ACRIMONY (noun)
  The noun ACRIMONY has 1 sense:

1. a rough and bitter manner

  Familiarity information: ACRIMONY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACRIMONY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rough and bitter manner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

acerbity; acrimony; bitterness; jaundice; tartness; thorniness

Hypernyms ("acrimony" is a kind of...):

disagreeableness (an ill-tempered and offensive disposition)

Derivation:

acrimonious (marked by strong resentment or cynicism)

 Context examples 

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.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

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.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)