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rankling

How to use rankling in a sentence

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.

COLONIAL BORNG. FIRTH SCOTT

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.

From that moment thy benevolence was, in a great part, turned into rankling jealousy and inexorable precaution.

Don't give your mother this rankling pain and humiliation during the rest of her life.

I have left her as my last legacy that rankling doubt, and I defy her to tear it out of her heart!

A RENT IN A CLOUDCHARLES JAMES LEVER

Some hobbled on crutches and wooden legs; others had received wounds, which were still rankling in their breasts.

Pride, anger, and mortification were rankling in her breast.

MARION BERKLEYELIZABETH B. COMINS

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985