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Rancorous

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ran·cor  (rngkr)
n.
Bitter, long-lasting resentment; deep-seated ill will. See Synonyms at enmity.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin, rancid smell, from Latin rancre, to stink, be rotten.]
rancor·ous adj.
rancor·ous·ly adv.
rancor·ous·ness n.
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Adj.1.rancorous - showing deep-seated resentment; "preserve...from rancourous envy of the rich"- Aldous Huxley
resentful - full of or marked by resentment or indignant ill will; "resentful at the way he was treated"; "a sullen resentful attitude"


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No, child, it was envy, the worst and most rancorous kind of envy, the envy of superiority of understanding.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
Yes, but it does not; I am rancorous -- the only stigma that proves me to be a churchman.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
And Hetty must be one of them: it is too painful to think that she is a woman, with a woman's destiny before her--a woman spinning in young ignorance a light web of folly and vain hopes which may one day close round her and press upon her, a rancorous poisoned garment, changing all at once her fluttering, trivial butterfly sensations into a life of deep human anguish.
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