(n.) The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.
Example Sentences:
(1) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.
(2) The developments come at a time of deep tension in Bangladesh , a nation struggling to overcome extreme poverty and rancorous politics.
(3) No one else need bother to paint them as a ramshackle and rancorous rabble marooned in the past and without a plausible account of the future.
(4) Arguments about this case, and the broader debate about the best way to tackle exploitative treatment of women in the sex industry, are unexpectedly rancorous.
(5) Trump approves of working with autocrats, at least, and would probably make fast friends with the galaxy’s less reputable leaders – especially those who share his interests, eg crimelord Jabba the Hutt, who lives in an ostentatious palace , loves parties , demeans women and feeds a literal Rancor .
(6) A sense of victimhood festers among even relatively advantaged white men, as the rancorously popular candidacy of Donald Trump confirms.
(7) This peaceful university town is 7,000 miles from the violence of the Middle East, but a proposal to become sister cities with a Palestinian community has stirred such rancor that the city council is trying to negotiate a truce among its own residents.
(8) While the contest has at times been rancorous, there is now a degree of bonhomie among the contenders – an esprit de corps that arises from having shared stages, green rooms and cars non-stop for nearly four months.
(9) Under Pinter's direction, Bates brilliantly brought out Butley's blend of rancorous wit and emotional immaturity; and it was to be the start of a long and fruitful assocation with Gray that included the lead roles in Otherwise Engaged (1975), for which Bates won an Evening Standard Best Actor award, Stage Struck (1979) and Melon (1987).
(10) That we demand a contest as satisfyingly unwholesome and rancorous as Cain and Abel, not something as nauseatingly wholesome and harmonious as Abel and Cole?
(11) Even in the most partisan and rancorous of times in Washington, there was enough respect for the two-party system and voters to avoid such an arrogant and autocratic move.
(12) Negotiations between the two sides have gone nowhere for five months and have become particularly rancorous in the past month as bailout and debt repayment deadlines came and went, with Athens missing a €1.5bn repayment to the IMF.
(13) Keegan haunts Ashley Mike Ashley, the Newcastle United owner, looks like he has learned the lessons of Kevin Keegan's rancorous 13-month battle for compensation after he was constructively dismissed as Newcastle manager in September 2008.
(14) That spirit of forgiveness is what we need more and more in this rancorous modern world.” The opposition leader, Bill Shorten, said the fresh calls for changes to the Racial Discrimination Act were a “ distasteful” attempt to use the French attack “to make domestic political points in Australia”.
(15) With Washington gripped by a growing sense that it may be too late to avert a crisis, the president has said he will give the increasingly rancorous negotiations until the end of next week to reach agreement on the terms for raising the US's $14.3 trillion (£8.9tn) debt ceiling.
(16) Photograph: Reuters The debate about restoring affordability to our cities is often rancorous and out of date.
(17) The legislation had an agonisingly tortuous passage through a rancorous and partisan Congress, but eventually it made it onto the statute book.
(18) John Gielgud highlighted Hamlet’s lyrical introspection, Laurence Olivier his athletic virility, Nicol Williamson his rancorous disgust, Mark Rylance his tormented isolation, David Tennant his mercurial humour.
(19) Thus, the usual forms of working time organization, with their arbitrary divisions, the monotony, repetitiveness and other restricting factors (stress), not only do not contribute to self-realization, but create rancor, boredom and drama.
(20) Barrett offers conciliation after a year and a half of unprecedented partisan rancor and disruptive political turmoil.
Rancour
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Trump’s nomination has been described as a hostile takeover and there was hostility aplenty: a festival of bigotry, rancour and racially charged hatred.
(2) This sporting occasion did begin in remembrance of one of the most remarkable campaigns for justice, against a scandalous police cover-up, but it ended largely in rancour, and complaints about a referee, Mark Halsey.
(3) "What I would say from last night is there's no bad blood, there's no rancour, no bitterness."
(4) As the meeting degenerated into rancour, Greek banks stood on the brink of collapse after a flood of cash withdrawals on Thursday, raising the prospect of capital controls and temporary bank closures.
(5) The next round of intermediate negotiations, due to start in Bonn on 31 May , look set to take place in a poisonous atmosphere of bitterness and rancour.
(6) It comes amid rising rancour between rich and poor countries.
(7) It's necessary to outline the succession of injustices that Watson has suffered, the abominable luck and ongoing battles, to begin to appreciate his near total absence of rancour.
(8) Meanwhile, Scottish Labour is eating itself, the former leader departing amid rancour .
(9) After much online rancour, Pelevina agreed she would not stand in the elections, but wrote on Facebook that Yashin was a “simple liar, petty and vengeful, and simply an indecent person”.
(10) She says this entirely equably, without boast or rancour.
(11) Republican rancour over the budget deal boiled over again on Thursday, after Senator John McCain attacked a last-minute amendment to spend $2.8bn on infrastructure work on the Ohio river, which connects the political backyards of party leaders in the Senate and the House.
(12) After a year in office, Rouhani has evidently put an end to Ahmadinejad’s years of rancour.
(13) Less than four months later, amid rancour, rifts and reams of gleeful commentary in the mainstream Italian media, the euphoria of that stunning breakthrough appears largely to have evaporated.
(14) is as charming a slab of rancour as one could wish for, simultaneously puffed-up with righteous anger and utterly crushed by disappointment.
(15) Chelsea had done nothing wrong, but the rancour was inevitable.
(16) The talks on Greece have left a legacy of rancour not only between Greece and the union but also between different groupings within the EU, straining the Franco-German relationship in particular.
(17) Chalmers, the moderator of the General Assembly, said he had "repelled by the name-calling and rancour we have seen in recent weeks.
(18) It's a moment without rancour, without bitterness: a great sigh of relief at the inevitable acknowledgement of the obvious… it's time to go our separate ways.
(19) The rancour that has run through the summit between developed and developing nations broke out again when the Africa group of countries and others accused the UN chair of the conference of trying to "kill" the Kyoto protocol.
(20) In a domestic debate that mirrors the rancour and resentments that have broken out across the EU as leaders bicker endlessly over who should pay to rescue the euro, richer German states now complain about constantly having to help out poorer states via the national federal subsidies system.