Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With a rancid odor; mustily.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a rancid manner.

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  • adverb In a rancid manner.

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Examples

  • He must have been to quite a few similar occasions, because he was pleased to say that "apart from a little touch of anti-Germanism" the fourth Reich remark this one hadn't been "rancidly anti-Scottish and anti-European".

    The English will surely have their day. But it will be a long time coming Ian Jack 2010

  • A new expose of one of the West's most rancidly anti-gay subcultures ... digg

    Johann Hari: Homophobic? Then You're Probably Gay 2009

  • A new expose of one of the West's most rancidly anti-gay subcultures -- hip-hop -- offers the beginnings of an answer.

    Johann Hari: Homophobic? Then You're Probably Gay 2009

  • A new expose of one of the West's most rancidly anti-gay subcultures ...

    Johann Hari: Homophobic? Then You're Probably Gay 2009

  • And, yes, it really is time to take Sandy's list seriously, and rip it several new orifices for the pack of rancidly dishonest lies that it is.

    Archive 2008-05-01 CC 2008

  • Sandy Crux's rancidly misleading and dishonest list of CPoC "accomplishments" seems to have ended up here, where failed CPoC Guelph candidate Gloria Kovach appears to have stolen chunks of Sandy's list wholesale.

    Archive 2008-10-01 CC 2008

  • Sandy Crux's rancidly misleading and dishonest list of CPoC "accomplishments" seems to have ended up here, where failed CPoC Guelph candidate Gloria Kovach appears to have stolen chunks of Sandy's list wholesale.

    You don't need to read past the headline. CC 2008

  • What would be scarier, the rancidly insincere hype of intelligent professionals who have a product to move regardless of its merits (or astonishing lack thereof), or a heaving, mouth-breathing mass of people so faux-literate, or dimwitted, that junk of this nature honestly strikes them as wonderful?

    Reader reviews of Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl. 2006

  • And, yes, it really is time to take Sandy's list seriously, and rip it several new orifices for the pack of rancidly dishonest lies that it is.

    Dear Sandy: About those "accomplishments" ... CC 2008

  • In a thousand different ways commentators have asserted based on no knowledge of the people involved that the lacrosse players behaved rancidly because they felt privileged and entitled to act as they pleased.

    Opinions are like apples ... Lisa B. 2006

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