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rankling
adjective as in festering
Strong matches
Weak match
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To add to the discomfort the crew of the "Royal Oak" were rankling under a grievance.
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Slaughter looked at him, his rage still rankling and burning.
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The further resistance came, whether from rivals, or from the rankling anger in Elizabeth's breast.
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Somewhere, somehow, he had taken a cynic twist or a rankling wound that had turned his white man's blood once for all.
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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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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