0 present participle of rankle --
1 to make someone annoyed or angry for a long time: --
[ + that ] It still rankles that she got promoted, and I didn't.
The unkind way in which his girlfriend left him still rankled with him long after.
But the grievance has left a little rankling.
I think you will still leave a sense of a great deal of unfairness and injustice rankling in the workers' minds.
Is not that bound to lead to tension and rankling feelings between such people, and towards difficulties in the scheme?
They will do very much more harm than good, and will leave behind a sense of rankling injustice.
Despite this, the problem has gone on rankling with these people.
That shows clearly what a rankling sense of injustice there can be in these circumstances.
They, and perhaps they only, in the court are the people who might have a rankling sense of injustice.
An amount of fair argument may be brought forward on behalf of the objectors, and a rankling feeling of wrong is spread throughout the locality.
