rancorous
adjectiveGraduateELO 1,550GRECAT
DEFINITION
showing deep-seated resentment
WEBSTER'S 1913
Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent.
ETYMOLOGY
Latin rancor, meaning bitter
IN LITERATURE
“He is not eminently, that is to say, not saliently, selfish; not rancorous, not obtrusive--tata-ta-ta.”
— George Meredith, Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
IN USE
“On the second day of the convention, there was an intense debate about the ethics of Mars terraforming, which science writer Oliver Morton described as 'rancorous'.”
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