Examples of rancour

• The conference showed that, even after a retreat on the issue of the family, the administration constantly ran into dissent and disagreement, if not rancour.

• His contempt for these things was invariably free of rancour.

• For the moment, the situation is the source of much rancour and confusion.

• Although the affair is concealed from strangers (especially if they happen to be potential donors), it is a source of anger, rancour and distrust at the local level.

• However, that "undefined feeling of immeasurable existence aloof from her" does rancorously persist; and it could be said to produce knowledge, of a kind, as well as rancour.

• But as a party we are not so anxious to pay off scores, or to indulge in rancour and revenge, as to contribute.

• Are we not glad that peoples who were conquered by us are at last liberated, not in a spirit of rancour but of good will?

• But, in the course of that overstatement, it is easy to come to the conclusion that these countries harbour immense spite and rancour against us.

• From disappointment and misunderstanding will spring rancour and a sense of having been cheated.

• That leads to feelings of rancour and jealousy.

• It is perfectly legitimate to hold one opinion or the other without indulging in any form of rancour in expressing it.

• There has been less party rancour, and, outside the speech to which we have just listened, nobody has indulged in party propaganda.

• Lists will create endless difficulty and a lot of rancour.

• It is a practical problem and one which we should approach without rancour or emotion.

• It has been a good debate, sustained, on the whole, at a high level and with a noteworthy absence of partisan rancour.