All 3 Uses
rancor
in
Underworld, by DeLillo
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- And it was up close, eyeball tight, a combat space without maneuvering room or finer points, a certain amount of acted rancor filling the visual field, a scowl and glare, or a hooded look, a sort of sleepy killer thing, lidded and dumb.†
rancor = deep and bitter anger or hatred
- Well, she was unloved in the deeper senses of the word but that was fine, she'd had enough love of the deeper types, painful and ever echoing, the rancorous marriages that make it hard for you to earn a dependable solitude.†
*rancorous = showing deep and bitter anger or hatred
- He made a sound, a harsh guttural produced at the back of the mouth, rattling and metallic, filled with rancor, and at first she thought he had the card printed because he did not want people to make the mistake of thinking he was German and then she thought he had the card printed because he did not want people to know he was a Jew.†
rancor = deep and bitter anger or hatred
Definitions:
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(1)
(rancor) deep and bitter anger or hatred -- especially when long-standing
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)