Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being rancid; rancidity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being rancid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The characteristic of being
rancid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being rancid
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Examples
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First, let's all agree that the rancidness of the ad is now beyond debate, not withstanding Deutsch's characterization of the thing on national television as "stunningly brilliant."
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First, let's all agree that the rancidness of the ad is now beyond debate, not withstanding Deutsch's characterization of the thing on national television as "stunningly brilliant."
Kirk Cheyfitz: How Could Tiger, Nike and Donny Be So Dumb? 2010
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Three or four of my bosses at work have spent many years perfecting that exquisite combination of stale beer, ciggies, coffee, natto, and general mouth rancidness that make my eyes water at twenty paces!
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TO NEW READERS: For those of you unfamiliar with the festering rancidness and mind-melting stupidity of Kathy "Five Feet of Bowel Obstruction" Shaidle, well, this is what happens when you take a few days off and leave Kathy with the keys to the blog.
Vote early. Vote often. CC 2008
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TO NEW READERS: For those of you unfamiliar with the festering rancidness and mind-melting stupidity of Kathy "Five Feet of Bowel Obstruction" Shaidle, well, this is what happens when you take a few days off and leave Kathy with the keys to the blog.
Archive 2008-12-01 CC 2008
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Go in with a mop & give the rancidness a good scrubbing?
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The still air held unfamiliar scents of food, but without the rancidness of grease, and there was little hint of chaos about the premises-except for the thin residual whiteness that seemed everywhere in Swartheld.
Wellspring of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 2004
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The chute tugged at his large body prior to collapsing in the surrounding rancidness.
Honorbound Taylor, Laura 1988
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He tasted the rancidness of his own sweat as it poured from his body like sheets of monsoon rain.
Honorbound Taylor, Laura 1988
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From this food their flesh has contracted a rancidness which occasions them to be rejected by nicer judges of eating, who thought them before a delicate dish.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756
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