acrimony
noun
[ ˈakrɪməni ]
• bitterness or ill feeling.
• "the AGM dissolved into acrimony"
Similar:
bitterness,
rancour,
resentment,
ill feeling,
ill will,
bad blood,
animosity,
hostility,
enmity,
antagonism,
irascibility,
waspishness,
spleen,
malice,
spitefulness,
crabbedness,
causticity,
sarcasm,
venom,
poison,
viciousness,
nastiness,
harshness,
sharpness,
acerbity,
virulence,
astringency,
grudge,
grievance,
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘bitter taste or smell’): from French acrimonie or Latin acrimonia, from acer, acri- ‘pungent, acrid’.
