Words similar to rancorous

Example sentences for: rancorous

How can you use “rancorous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

With the rancorous infighting that dominated Congress in the period 1865 to 1870, the relevance of nationhood began to recede.
There was nothing hostile, rancorous, weak-minded, or confused in their confident love of extreme display.
The forum's conservatives agreed to pity its leading liberal and her "hatred," but returned to rancorous form when talk turned to Clinton's accomplishments and his administration's sale of missile technology to China.
' The agent-noun would have been contecker and the adjective conteckerous . The latter, according to the currently accepted theory, became contankerous , and then cantankerous , influenced by cankerous and rancorous .
We believe that this carefully developed, publicly scrutinized future-use agreement is a unique strength of this study and hope that this proactive approach will avoid some of the rancorous misunderstandings that other investigative groups have encountered in genetic and pedigree research [ 51 ] .