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Six example sentences with acrimony, each labelled with its topic.
The border commission ended in acrimony, with two members refusing to sign the report they had spent a year drafting.
Politics
The band's breakup was full of acrimony, and for eleven years neither songwriter would appear on the same stage.
Music
Negotiations closed in acrimony after the buyer cut the offer twice in one week without explaining the revision.
Business
The lawsuit between the two neighbours ended with such acrimony that neither would use the shared driveway for a year.
Law
The trade was completed with real acrimony, and the coach refused to shake hands at the first meeting afterward.
Basketball
The cofounders split with enough acrimony that the lawyers, not the founders, negotiated who kept the company name.
Startups
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