acrimonious

suomi-englanti sanakirja

acrimonious englannista suomeksi

  1. kärkevä, katkeransävyinen

  1. kitkerä

acrimonious englanniksi

  1. Harsh and sharp, or bitter and not pleasant to the taste; acrid, pungent.

  2. (RQ:Scott Redgauntlet) began to suffer in the body as well as the mind. He had formed the determination of setting out in person for Dumfriesshire, when, after having been dogged, peevish, and snappish to his clerks and domestics, to an unusual and almost intolerable degree, the acrimonious humours settled in a hissing-hot fit of the gout, which is a well-known tamer of the most froward spirits, (..)

  3. (quote-book)

  4. (quote-journal)

  5. Angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies: bitter, mean-spirited, sharp in language or tone. (defdate)

  6. (quote-book)|date=4 February 1854|pages=125–126|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=OV8BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA126|oclc=|passage=Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen|Lord Aberdeen is indignant that he is described as the tool of Russia, and to prove his independence, vows that he has, when Secretary of State, written very "acrimonious" despatches against that Power. Secretaries of State ought never to write "acrimonious" despatches. (..) If the letters of Lord Aberdeen to the "foreign conspirators," who are his correspondents at Paris and elsewhere, had been a little more acrimonious as regards Russia, affairs might have been better, (..)

  7. (quote-web)