Crossword-Solution: RANCOROUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rancorous | a. | Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “RANCOROUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Full of contention | 1 answer |
| Bitterly angry | 2 answers |
| Full of malice | 3 answers |
| revengeful | 12 answers |
| atrabilious | 18 answers |
| snarly | 48 answers |
| growling | 55 answers |
| Acrimonious | 61 answers |
| Curt | 65 answers |
| Gruff | 67 answers |
| unmannerly | 70 answers |
| Spiteful | 81 answers |
| Rude | 85 answers |
| Peevish. | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RANCOROUS (5)
But now his sense of outrage was deep, rancorous, and ever present; he felt that he was a good fellow wronged.
Though fully aware who I was, he held out the hand of friendship to the wandering heretic missionary, although by so doing he exposed himself to the rancorous remarks of the narrow-minded native clergy, who, in their ugly shovel hats and long cloaks, glared at me askance as I passed by their whispering groups beneath the piazzas of the Plaza.
The sceptic too may retort: ‘No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.’ Conviction of this kind is but the convenient substitute for knowledge laboriously won, for the patient pursuit of truth at all costs—a plea in short, for ignorance, indolence, incapacity, and the rancorous bigotry begotten of them.
And Hetty must be one of them: it is too painful to think that she is a woman, with a woman’s destiny before her—a woman spinning in young ignorance a light web of folly and vain hopes which may one day close round her and press upon her, a rancorous poisoned garment, changing all at once her fluttering, trivial butterfly sensations into a life of deep human anguish.
Condemned to suffer the same privations and wants, her countenance, when her interest does not oblige her to dissemble her feelings, presents the same aspect of melancholy, and shows besides, with more energy, the rancorous passions of which the female heart is susceptible.
Quotes with RANCOROUS (1)
I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me: I became rancorous. I was gloomy--other children were merry and talkative. I felt myself superior to them--but was considered inferior: I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world--none understood me: and I learned to hate.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, WSJ.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2018–2021).