acrimoniousness
31feud — n 1. vendetta, rivalry, cold war; hostility, antagonism, animosity, enmity, opposition; acrimoniousness, bitterness, ill will, bad blood, hard feelings, unfriendliness; schism, faction, breach, estrangement, falling out. 2. quarrel, argument,… …
32incisiveness — n 1. trenchancy, acidity, acridity, acrimoniousness, acerbicity, pungency; sarcasm, satire, ridicule, irony, cynicism; criticism, disparagement, disapprobation, censorship. 2. sharpness, keenness, alertness, acuity, acumen, acuteness; discernment …
33irony — n 1. incongruity, incongruousness, absurdity, illogicality; contrariety, contradiction, paradox, enigma; double entendre, Rhet. enantiosis. 2. derision, ridicule, sarcasm, scorn, mockery, cynicism, Rhet. asteism; satire, lampoon, burlesque,… …
34keenness — n cogency, penetration, incisiveness, pointedness; mordancy, mordaciousness, trenchancy, pungency, cuttingness, bitingness, stingingness, scorchingness; satiricalness, sardonicism, derisiveness, mockingness, insultingness; harshness, severity,… …
35pungency — n 1. acridity, sting, acrid taste or smell; sourness, tang, tartness, bitterness, nip, acidity, vinegar; savoriness, spiciness, flavorfulness, pepperiness, saltiness. 2. poignance, pathos, touchingness, patheticalness, piteousness;… …
36sarcasm — n 1. derision, ridicule, scorn, mockery, jest; satire, irony, cynicism, lampoon, burlesque; contempt, disparagement, disdain, superciliousness, haughtiness, arrogance; criticism, censure, hit, fling, Inf. flak, rub, dig; taunt, fleer, gibe, jeer …
37severity — n 1. harshness, rigor, rigorousness, stringency, asperity, strictness, roughness, extremity; inflexibility, unbendingness, unyieldingness, obdurateness, flintiness; persistence, unremittance, inexorability, implacability, relentlessness;… …
38spleen — n 1. petulance, peevishness, pettishness, Rare. petulancy; ill humoredness, ill humor, touchiness, testiness, waspishness, querulousness, carp ingness; irascibleness, irascibility, biliousness, cholericness; ill temperedness, bad temper,… …
39sullenness — n 1. crossness, angriness, anger; ill or bad temper, ill or bad humor, ill or bad mood, sulk, sulks. 2. sulkiness, moroseness, mumpishness, glumness, moodiness; resentfulness, bitterness, embitteredness; acrimoniousness, acerbity, choler, spleen …
40venomous — adj 1. poisonous, virulent, envenomed, deadly, toxic, lethal, fatal; noxious, harmful, hurtful, injurious, mischievous, detrimental, deleterious, unwholesome, unhealthy; destructive, ruinous, pernicious, baleful. 2. hostile, resentful, indignant …
