Mr. Bernard's acrimonious attitude made him disagreeable to most people. From LearnThat.org.
An acrimonious dispute. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But the two-hour meeting was acrimonious from the start. From Wordnik.com. ['The Cove''s Ric O'Barry Boycotts Taiji, Japan Dolphin Hunt Negotiations Over Media Restrictions, Meeting Ends In Bitter Disagreement] Reference
It has a very -- to use the word acrimonious is an understatement relationship with India. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2008] Reference
The foreign coaches they hire have little say over player selection and often leave their posts in acrimonious circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [A Hockey Player India Could Use] Reference
Meetings with Mugabe were, he said this week, not "acrimonious", but cordial. From Wordnik.com. [Christina Patterson: Politics is Difficult and Dirty. And a Noble Calling] Reference
Brody Dalle admits to 'acrimonious' Distillers split. From Wordnik.com. [NME.COM - News] Reference
Disagreement always marks you as "acrimonious" within the jaundiced liberal eye. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Hill Coffee House] Reference
Last month, the union said contract talks had turned "acrimonious" after management pushed for Guild members to take a. From Wordnik.com. [Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal] Reference
Later Dodd added a seat on health, education, and labor - a notoriously "acrimonious" committee, he says - with Ted Kennedy. From Wordnik.com. [Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com] Reference
Justice Terry Forrest said he accepted O'Reilly's action was fuelled by his "acrimonious" departure from the board of Indophil in 2007. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
Maybe so, but two music industry insiders told me the kind of acrimonious relationship between Apple and the labels described by Robertson doesn't exist. From Wordnik.com. [CNET News.com] Reference
He said the move had led to an "acrimonious" row and a legal action that led to the couple and Mr Nairn's company, Bikpela Investments, receiving millions of dollars in 2008. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
Much media speculation has indicated that Rodriguez’s decision represents some kind of acrimonious break with Boras. From Wordnik.com. [A-Rod Stays Put] Reference
After 17 acrimonious months, it died in August 1994. From Wordnik.com. [It's the Spending, Stupid] Reference
Exactly how acrimonious was the Clinton-Brown contest?. From Wordnik.com. [Larry Womack: The Politics of Personal Animosity] Reference
You get a stalemate, and it's becoming more acrimonious by the day. From Wordnik.com. [THE BATTLE OF THE VIDEO DISCS] Reference
The two had a "short and extremely acrimonious" discussion, she says. From Wordnik.com. [ENRON'S DIRTY LAUNDRY] Reference
"We'd had an acrimonious relationship with the city," says Phillips, 53. From Wordnik.com. [How The Chicago Bears Fumbled Away A Fortune] Reference
Many of those campaigns will likely be intense, acrimonious and personal. From Wordnik.com. [Connecticut Races Promise a Fight] Reference
Should Washington insist, it could spark another acrimonious transatlantic dispute. From Wordnik.com. [Stop Baiting the Bear] Reference
He started by seeking to explain just why the political debate has been so acrimonious. From Wordnik.com. [Grasping for a Legacy] Reference
They went so far as to repeal, after a spirited and acrimonious debate, the ordinance of secession. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
With every passing day, the dispute over the planned Islamic Center near Ground Zero grows more acrimonious. From Wordnik.com. [WTC Mosque, Meet the Auschwitz Nuns] Reference
I live in a small town with acrimonious politics and try to stay out of things, for the most part succeeding. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Manners: Polite evasion required with election-day snoops] Reference
AMR shares fell Wednesday as the airline company continues to struggle with an increasingly acrimonious labor dispute. From Wordnik.com. [AMR In Dog Fight With Labor] Reference
You know, especially in those first months after 9/11, I found myself engaged in really acrimonious, angry discussions. From Wordnik.com. [Journalist Lawrence Wright's 'Trip To Al-Qaeda'] Reference
For the lanky, inscrutably calm activist, the shoot-out punctuated a long history of acrimonious battles with the police. From Wordnik.com. [A Firebrand's Long Run] Reference
Bush's advisers have had much to do with creating an aura of good feeling after last fall's acrimonious budget negotiations. From Wordnik.com. [Is Bush's Team Up To It?] Reference
More Deal Journal: Potash Legal Complaint The suit is the latest move in an acrimonious struggle for control of Potash Corp. From Wordnik.com. [Potash Corp. Seeks to Block BHP Bid] Reference
China-Japan relations have been increasingly acrimonious since last November, following a military encounter on the high seas. From Wordnik.com. [ASIA: FURIES UNLEASHED] Reference
Yet these value differences, which deserve vigorous and thoughtful debate, have been elevated into an acrimonious culture war. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jim Taylor: Losing the Real Culture War] Reference
There are, however, a number of cheaper, less-stressful alternatives to the traditionally costly and acrimonious divorce proceeding. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking Up Without Breaking the Bank] Reference
Things got so acrimonious among Interphone scientists that they delayed announcing the results, finally released in May, for four years. From Wordnik.com. [Will This Phone Kill You?] Reference
And, judging from the reenactment of the duel this weekend, exchanges between descendants of the two men have become almost as acrimonious. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: The Hamilton-Burr Feud Continues] Reference
They're back on the indie scene with the upstart Weinstein Co. after several acrimonious years at Disney, which now owns their Miramax studio. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood's New Moguls] Reference
The anxiety resounded through Washington last week, as officials from seven leading countries held an unusually acrimonious exchange-rate parley. From Wordnik.com. [Rush To The Exits] Reference
Well, there is actually a fairly acrimonious debate taking place about the origins and nature of alcoholism, part of a larger debate about genetic determinism and free will. From Wordnik.com. [Destined to Cheat?] Reference
The acrimonious relationship between the laborers and Smithfield traces its origins to two elections held in the mid-1990s aimed at deciding whether workers wanted to unionize. From Wordnik.com. [A Thanksgiving Rebellion] Reference
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