Rancorous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RANCOROUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• full of rancour
• characterized by bitterness or resentment
• Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent.
• showing deep-seated resentment
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• marked by rancor; deeply malevolent

Words related to RANCOROUS

rancorously16 rancour9

Words that contain RANCOROUS

rancorously16 rancorousness15 rancorousnesses17

How to use RANCOROUS in a sentence

• Few atrocities had been committed, except by the rancorous Tories, who slaughtered and burned without pity, and by the Indians who were paid by the British government.
• When Osborn joined his wife and daughter at the tea-table in the hall after some disappointing shooting, his remarks about his tenants were rancorous.
• It is not apparent that educated Southerners are less rancorous than others in their speech concerning the Negro, or less hostile in their attitude toward his rights.
• The dwarf became livid, seemed always after haunted by a dreadful fear of him, pursued him with a rancorous hate, but could not hinder his marriage.
• I think, however, I have said enough to prove the bitter and rancorous spirit which at present animates the planters.
• Proud she was, and sly, with an envious heart, and a rancorous tongue.
• Rancorous, guttural cries burst out loudly on their ears, and a strange panting sound, the working of all these straining breasts.
• In the mob, unfortunately near the center of confusion, was a half-drunken miner, rancorous as poison.
• The Solicitor-General took up the rest of the day with a rancorous reply.
• In replying to you on this point, you will now have all the mystery explained of my rancorous pursuit of this boy.
• It is here worth noting that the universal fame of Sir Isaac Newton was brought about by his rancorous enemies, and not by his loving friends.
• As to persons whom he chose to regard as his enemies, he was beyond measure rancorous and dangerous.
• Those who adhered to the commander, and the others whom he impeached, were inflamed against each other with the most rancorous resentment.
• That spiteful, rabid, rancorous jealousy Makes me go stumbling along the way.
• There is no speech in the world so rancorous and so stinging as the language the Jungle People use to show scorn and contempt.
• Nor should these tyrannous acts be ascribed so much to the rancorous nature of the victors as to the natural tendency of power obtained by illegal violent means.
• He felt full of rancorous indignation against the woman who could look like this at one.
• In return for their venomous nickname and the contempt and hatred with which they were treated, they themselves grew steadily more rancorous, more extreme in their feelings.
• In lieu of friendly reciprocity the return began to be rancorous mistrust and revival of hatred.
• This circumstance is the more fortunate, as they maintain the most rancorous and inflexible hatred and hostility towards the colonists.
• He knew he had become morbid, sick, rancorous, base, obsessed with this iniquity and his passion to stamp on it, as if it were a venomous serpent.
• There was much that was squalid and grossly unjust in the rancorous campaigns conducted first against Clive and then against Warren Hastings.
• And a rancorous discontent gnawed at his famished heart.
• The canvass was one of the most rancorous and bitter ever known in the State, but of this I have spoken in a former chapter.

Similar words containing RANCOROU without suffix s

rancorously16 rancorousness15 rancorousnesses17

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