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Rancorous synonyms

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acrimonious
Bitter and sharp in language or tone; rancorous:
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  1. Bitter and sharp in language or tone; rancorous:
  2. Bitter and caustic in temper, manner, or speech
bitter
Proceeding from or exhibiting strong animosity:
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  1. Proceeding from or exhibiting strong animosity:
  2. Designating or having a sharp, often unpleasant taste; acrid, as quinine or peach stones
  3. Difficult or distasteful to accept, admit, or bear:
hard
Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering:
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  1. Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering:
  2. Lacking in shade; undiminished:
  3. Stern, strict, or demanding:
resentful
Feeling or showing resentment
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  1. Feeling or showing resentment
  2. Harboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment.
  3. Full of, characterized by, or inclined to feel indignant ill will.
virulent
Bitterly antagonistic or spiteful; full of hate and enmity; venomous; rancorous
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  1. Bitterly antagonistic or spiteful; full of hate and enmity; venomous; rancorous
  2. (Med.) Violent and rapid in its course; highly malignant
  3. Able to overcome the natural defenses of the host; highly infectious
Find another word for rancorous. In this page you can discover 8 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for rancorous, like: acrimonious, bitter, embittered, hard, resentful, virulent, attitude and love.

Sentence Examples

  • 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.

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

  • In these circumstances, he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and there, in January 1836, founded the Philanthropist, which, in spite of rancorous opposition, became of great influence in the north-west.

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

  • Under the auspices of this rancorous princess the second conspiracy was hatched in the following year (1487).

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