acrimony
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General noun
Bitterness or harshness of feeling, speech or manner.
The negotiations collapsed amid mutual acrimony and traded accusations.
Business noun
Bitterness or ill feeling, especially in speech or dispute.
Years of acrimony between the co-founders finally spilled into open litigation.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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