Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative form of
rancorous .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word rancourous.
Examples
-
And I'm talking about something with balls, with the kind of rancourous debate and excited opinion-chucking to be found at the best con panels.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
-
And I'm talking about something with balls, with the kind of rancourous debate and excited opinion-chucking to be found at the best con panels.
Books on TV 2010
-
What he offers us, with driving energy, is a bluff, dirty-minded NCO who is filled with a rancourous, destructive negativity that leads him to detest Othello for his "free and open nature" and to loathe Cassio for the simple reason "he hath a daily beauty in his life that makes me ugly."
Othello – review 2011
-
Frequently a cycle of rancourous protest was set off … CAP organizers prized angry confrontation because it created solidarity and a commitment to further action among participants.
Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010
-
Frequently a cycle of rancourous protest was set off … CAP organizers prized angry confrontation because it created solidarity and a commitment to further action among participants.
Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010
-
What I`d give for the chance at some rancourous debate...in fact, the book I`m reading right now, ostensibly for an IZ review, would if critiqued publically in the way that it should would ignite some flamey words, I can tell you.
Books on TV 2010
-
Something similar is going to happen in Britain and we too can look forward to a rancourous struggle between the public sector and what remains of the private sector.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
-
Something similar is going to happen in Britain and we too can look forward to a rancourous struggle between the public sector and what remains of the private sector.
-
I suspect it will contract and expand from time to time, go through bad phases as well as good, rancourous as well as enlightening.
-
Perhaps it's seen as more civilised understated, less rancourous, in the British sense.
"Every woman I know was in high hysteria over [Sarah Palin]." Ann Althouse 2008
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.