0 to make someone annoyed or angry for a long time:
The unkind way in which his girlfriend left him still rankled with him long after.
[ + that ] It still rankles that she got promoted, and I didn't.
This financial payday, however, fell very late, and that inability to assist in due season seems, reading between the lines, to have rankled.
The implication that his methods (dramatic and documentary) were both faulty really rankled.
However, musicians are also sometimes rankled by coverage that lacks any critical discussion of the music itself.
The differentiation of one sheep from another, accompanied by novel or presumptuous claims, rankled.
The decision to remove negotiating rights was almost unbelievable and will rankle for many years after the restoration of those rights.
That still rankles with many people and has left many families torn, divided and embittered.
It is a bit of a come-down and it rankles.
Its unsettlement has rankled in the bosoms of the nations everywhere.
