adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an acrimonious manner; with irritating bitterness or severity.

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1829.  S. Turner, Mod. Hist. Eng., IV. II. xxvii. 173. Commencing and acrimoniously pursuing a personal and deadly warfare against the queen.

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1866.  C. C. Felton, Greece, II. vii. 114. They often differed, sometimes acrimoniously.

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