Crossword-Solution: CANKERED 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
Cankered imp. & p. p. of Canker
Cankered a. Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth.
Cankered a. Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore,
envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured.

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cankerous 5 answers
Bearish 45 answers
crotchety 70 answers
cranky 74 answers
Cantankerous 77 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CANKERED (5)

Pearl misses something that she has always seen me wear!” “I pray you,” answered the minister, “if thou hast any means of pacifying the child, do it forthwith! Save it were the cankered wrath of an old witch like Mistress Hibbins,” added he, attempting to smile, “I know nothing that I would not sooner encounter than this passion in a child.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Canters before a Sarrazin, Abisme, More felon none was in that company; Cankered with guile and every felony, He fears not God, the Son of Saint Mary; Black is that man as molten pitch that seethes; Better he loves murder and treachery Than to have all the gold of Galicie; Never has man beheld him sport for glee; Yet vassalage he's shown, and great folly, So is he dear to th' felon king Marsile; Dragon he bears, to which his tribe rally.
The Song of Roland Anonymous 1996
And now the tale must stride forward over many months, leaving Pearson to encounter ignominy and misfortune; his wife to a firm endurance of a thousand sorrows; poor Ilbrahim to pine and droop like a cankered rosebud; his mother to wander on a mistaken errand, neglectful of the holiest trust which can be committed to a woman.
Twice-Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1996
But it was evident that their hearts were cankered with discontent; that they considered themselves as condemned to labour for the luxury of the rich, and looked up with stupid malevolence towards those that were placed above them.
Rasselas Samuel Johnson 2013
But what is this? Is not thy effrontery impenetrable, and thy heart thoroughly cankered? O most specious, and most profligate of women!" Saying this, he rushed out of the house.
Wieland; or The Transformation Charles Brockden Brown 1997

Quotes with CANKERED (2)

I don't think I could ever see her closely," the sentinel replied, "however close she came." His own voice was hushed and regretful, echoing with lost chances. "She has a newness," he said. "Everything is for the first time. See how she moves, how she walks, how she turns her head -- all for the first time, the first time anyone has ever done these things. See how she draws her breath and lets it go again, as though no one else in the world knew that air was good. It is all f…
Peter S. Beagle The Last Unicorn
One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children - only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.
Isabella Bird