Sentence example with the word 'rancorous'

rancorous

acerb, acidulent, antipathetic, caustic, despiteful, grudgeful, malevolent, punitory, resenting, sore, venenate, vindictive

Definition adj. showing deep-seated resentment

Last update: October 17, 2015


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Rancorous debate was going on between two brothers.   [Please select]

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He was speaker of the House from December 1876 to March 1881, during a period marked by rancorous debates concerning the disputed Hayes-Tilden presidential election.   [Please select]

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He did not seem to have a deliberate intention to rouse Duane; the man was simply rancorous, jealous.   [Please select]

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Brown who had seized Fort Pulaski in the previous year--exchanged a rancorous correspondence.   [Please select]

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Juste Duvarney spoke only once, and then it was but the rancorous word "Renegade."   [Please select]

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He hated her with the rancorous and cruel hatred of conscious inferiority, savagely repenting his undertaking to provide for her.   [Please select]

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Thus, the higher the fortune the less the liberty; the less we ought to be partial, rancorous, and especially angry.   [Please select]

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To this notice Gorton replied, November 20, 1642, in a letter full of abstruse theology and rancorous invective.   [Please select]

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Under his guidance the debate was diverted into a rancorous discussion of the conduct of the general's in the execution of martial law.   [Please select]

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