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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

SYNONYMS
ANTONYMS
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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