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rankle
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  • Atticus's remarks were still rankling, which made me miss the request in Jem's question.  (source)
    rankling = causing annoyance
  • Because Dana was under eighteen, the authorities weren't allowed to release his name to the media—a fact that rankled Roy's mother, who believed Dana's mug shot should have been plastered on the front page.†  (source)
  • What rankled even more was that people seemed to feel sorrier for her because of this than they did for me.†  (source)
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  • What rankled Laila was that Mammy hadn't earned the right to make it.†  (source)
  • At the time of the pig roast, it was still rankling my father that Harold suddenly, in March, and without telling my father ahead of time, bought a brand-new, enclosed, airconditioned International Harvester tractor with a tape cassette player, for playing old Bob Wills recordings over and over while working in the fields, and not only the tractor, but a new planter as well.†  (source)
  • It was also, in my opinion, one of the things that a John Proctor would rebel against, for the time of the armed camp had almost passed, and since the country was reasonably—although not wholly—safe, the old disciplines were beginning to rankle.†  (source)
  • I detest that man and it rankles that he got so much of you and I got so little.†  (source)
  • I Sit and Look Out I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame, I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done, I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate, I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women, I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth, I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and prisoners, I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd to preserve the l†  (source)
  • "Dobby," growled Harry; this injustice still rankled.†  (source)
  • I'm looking at a security memo that's a little, actually, rankling.†  (source)
  • I was proud of my sister, but that year, something began to rankle beneath the pride.†  (source)
  • ...Jane, forgive me—I'm sore within and something rankles.†  (source)
  • The sly arrogance of the comment rankled him.†  (source)
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