0 having or showing a feeling of hate and continuing anger about something in the past:
a rancorous dispute
Government leaders appear increasingly rancorous.
Let's come to an agreement before this discussion becomes rancorous.
This has been a tough, often rancorous, fight for the nomination.
Moreover, rancorous disputes might also arise where officials failed to provide adequate information or stick to an agreed plan of action.
One might reasonably expect that recollections of literary tastes, especially concerning authors who were the subject of rancorous arguments, would be affected by the shaping processes of autobiography.
He cannot be rancorous in submitting proposals of that kind to a legislative assembly.
Alternatively, we embark upon endless and rancorous debate.
I hesitate to introduce a rancorous note into what should be a happy debate, as this is a non-controversial and inoffensive measure.
