as in hostility
a deep-seated ill will
controversy over use of pesticides has caused a lot of rancor in this agricultural community
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Recent Examples of rancor
That rancor combined with Nazi flags will never not be disorienting to anyone who knows what the Thousand-Year Reich that lasted for twelve years inflicted on the world.
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Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2025
His screed resonates as a credo today: Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2025
Etty Lau Farrell has danced onstage at many Jane’s Addiction shows over the years, causing rancor within the band.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2025
Instead, with international travel to the United States already plunging — especially absent are the angry Canadians — amid rancor over President Donald Trump’s trade wars, L.A. hotels can’t catch a break.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 27 June 2025
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Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2025
His screed resonates as a credo today: Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2025
Etty Lau Farrell has danced onstage at many Jane’s Addiction shows over the years, causing rancor within the band.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2025
Instead, with international travel to the United States already plunging — especially absent are the angry Canadians — amid rancor over President Donald Trump’s trade wars, L.A. hotels can’t catch a break.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rancor
Noun
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When faced with Laura’s hostility, what can Cherry do but lose her mind, smash a glass against her head, and tell Daniel that his mother did it?—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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The conflict between Israel and Palestine was dividing friends, sparking tensions, and fueling rising acts of hostility.—
Rchin Bari,
Boston Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Darkly funny and deeply melancholic, the film turns the family estate into a pressure cooker of grief, grudges and reluctant affection.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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After Abe’s assassination in 2022 by a suspect who said he was motivated by a grudge against the church, an internal survey in the LDP later found that nearly half of the party’s members had links to it.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Regarding her own father, former Hollywood lighting director Thomas Markle, there is such entrenched bitterness, and this situation makes any reconciliation far from likely.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The biggest casualty, says Srivastava, will be the goodwill between India and the United States, built after decades of bitterness over Washington's support of India's adversaries like Pakistan.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
8 Sep. 2025
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Foreign perpetrators have been linked to previous acts intended to incite hatred.—
Saskya Vandoorne,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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The left is always, at all times and places, a violent phenomenon full of hatred.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Rancor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rancor. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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