Sample Sentences for
rancor
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    The meeting only fueled their rancor.
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    the vital stuffs of their mortal greed, rancor, and poisonous guilt,  (source)
    rancor = deep and bitter anger or hatred
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    she dispensed with rancor, was indiscriminately polite, saving her real affection for the unpicked children of Cincinnati,  (source)
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    they became entangled in a mean-spirited argument that stirred up in both of them the rancor of almost five years of divided love.  (source)
    rancor = deep and bitter anger or hatred
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    Yesterday he bought a chicken from a rancorous crone in the market, but not until he got it home did he discover that although it had been plucked, it had not been cleaned.†  (source)
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    Irritated convictions, embittered enthusiasms, agitated indignations, instincts of war which have been repressed, youthful courage which has been exalted, generous blindness; curiosity, the taste for change, the thirst for the unexpected, the sentiment which causes one to take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted it; discomfort, empty dreams, ambitious that are hedged about, whoever hopes for a downfall, some outcome, in short, at the very bottom, the rabble, that mud which catches fire,— such are the elements of revolt.†  (source)
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    Because he said how the terrible pan of it had not occurred to him yet, he just lay there while the two of them argued inside of him, speaking in orderly turn, both calm, even leaning backward to be calm and reasonable and unrancorous: But I can kill him.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrancorous means not and reverses the meaning of rancorous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    If a passing Protestant felt inclined to show the statue some small gesture of disrespect, the vigilant nuns would exit their guardhouse on the fly— their black habits flapping with the defiant rancorousness of crows.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Her voice was cold, but the rancor was gone from it.  (source)
    rancor = anger or hatred
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    Young men traded in gold and notes, fighting bitter and rancorous battles over battered watch-cases, the ends of chains, or worn and dirty dollar bills that they held up to the light, announcing that they were flawed and worth almost nothing, although the sellers insisted passionately that they were 'almost like new'.†  (source)
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    Every waking moment was poisoned by Grandma's hatred, but my mother ... kept her silent course around the house with only a murmured word or two when a reply seemed necessary and could be given without risking further rancor.  (source)
    rancor = feelings of bitter anger or hatred
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    "You buried the elf," he said, sounding unexpectedly rancorous.†  (source)
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    His movements were precise and without rancor.  (source)
    rancor = anger or hatred
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