Rancorous synonyms

Warburton's manner of dealing with opponents was both insolent and rancorous, but it did him no disservice.

He was speaker of the House from December 1876 to March 1881, during a period marked by rancorous debates concerning the disputed Hayes-Tilden presidential election.

The nearer the neighbors, the more rancorous and internecine is the strife; and, as in all cases where animosity is deadly and no grave local causes of dispute are apparent, we are bound to conclude that some deeply-seated permanent uneasiness goaded these fast growing communities into rivalry.

Hence came a series of rancorous quarrels with his parliaments, which grew more disloyal and clamorous ~ at every new session.

But the latter, while feigning indifference, was thenceforth his rancorous and determined foe.