Acrimonious

Acrimonious disputes are one sign the flood of parents prepared to sell their organs to get their children away from the pre-prison into private education is more germane.

Cross Dressing Labour Newmania 2008

I'm not actually sure what Five Feet of Acrimonious Dry Drunk was getting at there.

Just keep telling yourself ... CC 2008

Acrimonious union battles and ramped-up management defiance might be the prelude to another one of those giant sucking sounds.

The Hollywood squeeze: Is outsourcing next? | EW.com 2006

Acrimonious remarks at the summit have alternately demonised

ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

Acrimonious discussions were held between Bismarck and Gorchakov.

1875, April 8 2001

Acrimonious debate between Washington and Berlin, culminating in an American ultimatum.

11. The War at Sea, 1916-1917 2001

Acrimonious debate over universal suffrage took place in the Diet.

1919, Jan. 18 2001

Acrimonious debate with Nancy was evidently such sweet pain that old Jephthah sought every opportunity for it, and the sudden shower in the vicinity of her cabin had offered him an excuse to-day.

Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

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.

Letters and Journals 02] Morse, Samuel F B 1914

Acrimonious as are the feelings often evoked by political controversies, they are urbanity itself as compared with the passions aroused over economic issues.

British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals J. Ellis Barker 1909