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rankling

adjective as in festering

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Example Sentences

To add to the discomfort the crew of the "Royal Oak" were rankling under a grievance.

Slaughter looked at him, his rage still rankling and burning.

The further resistance came, whether from rivals, or from the rankling anger in Elizabeth's breast.

Somewhere, somehow, he had taken a cynic twist or a rankling wound that had turned his white man's blood once for all.

Still rankling in Hannah's memory was a day when Lise had returned from school, dark and mutinous, with a tale of such a family.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rankling, such as: annoying, disturbing, galling, irritating, upsetting, and painful.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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