Adjective, : tall rank weeds. ,a rank cigar. ,a rank amateur; rank treachery. ,a rank sight of carnage. ,rank language. From Dictionary.com.
It is this kind of rankly dishonest partisanship that has turned off so many voters. From Wordnik.com. [Spokesman.com: Latest stories] Reference
Do not such rankly partisan statements trouble you?. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday’s Breakfast Menu, Nov. 9 - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Steals a deforming rust on ploughs left rankly to moulder. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
We all have them and, rankly, we all get confused by them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2005] Reference
He was hopelessly unorthodox — rankly rebellious as to creeds. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
Steals a deforming rust on ploughs left rankly to moulder. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
COOPER: Tucker, do you think she's been rankly incompetent, as Paul says?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2004] Reference
They're wondering if he's run home to Eaton, but that's rankly impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
The forest path was rankly wet with night dew, and dimly lighted by the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos] Reference
We all know how rankly plants grow where there is plenty of heat and moisture. From Wordnik.com. [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference
Fox is showing itself for the rankly partisan, corrupt, warmongering outfit it is. From Wordnik.com. [New Hampshire GOP Pulls Out Of Fox News Debate] Reference
There rankly tall dark green grass grew, such as that which formed the rings of shelter. From Wordnik.com. [Dread Companion]
His little weaknesses, too, began to show themselves and they grew rankly in the sunshine. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
Gables, every room in the House, every burdock growing rankly before the door, a symbolic significance. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference
Rover, gentle Irish Setters, as "Red Devils," which was so rankly unjust that Baldy, who knew not automobiles, was amazed at her stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Baldy of Nome] Reference
He concedes that it would be rankly hypocritical of the Republicans to resort to threat of filibuster now that they're in the minority, right?. From Wordnik.com. [TPMDC Morning Roundup] Reference
The U.S. penchant for positioning Cuba-related communiqués as primarily human rights reprimands resonates rankly as an inconsistent singling out. From Wordnik.com. [Rep. Mike Honda: Political Grandstanding in US Prevents Economic Opportunity in Cuba] Reference
I observed that at some point, immediately preceding an election, unattributed statements about the existence of an investigation was rankly unfair. From Wordnik.com. [Murray Waas: Former U.S. Attorney condemns Bush White House Interference with Corruption Probe] Reference
Whether his pony's thrown him somewhere, and he's hurt, or lost - or whether … They're wondering if he's run home to Eaton, but that's rankly impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
There were oozy bottoms, rankly speared with rush-grass. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
He was hopelessly unorthodox -- rankly rebellious as to creeds. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference
These tasted rankly of fish, and were at first very disagreeable. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
In the atmosphere of sham-truth all the antisocial instincts grow rankly. From Wordnik.com. [Psychology and Social Sanity] Reference
It was indubitable -- rankly impossible, no doubt, but absolutely certain. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost Stories of an Antiquary] Reference
In that rankly growing wilderness we saw no sign of life, not even a rabbit. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
The paving-stones lay at random, displaced from their beds by the rankly-growing grass. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5] Reference
It inclines to grow too rankly at best, and demands mellowness rather than richness of soil. From Wordnik.com. [Success with Small Fruits] Reference
The grass was higher than the heads of the travellers, and the vegetation everywhere was rankly luxuriant. From Wordnik.com. [Black Ivory] Reference
But put them out on the fringe of things, transplant them to wild soil, and the sap runs, they flower rankly. From Wordnik.com. [The Winds of Chance] Reference
These, even more than the pseudomaniac cases mentioned later, grow rankly in those with criminal predispositions. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
I do not know a pair of more rankly absurd idealists than you and myself, and along with idealism goes discontent. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Franklin K. Lane] Reference
But their combined charm was not to be resisted, and the picture glowed with the rankly human side of southern lowlife. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Hours] Reference
The vine, loosened from the rusty nails, trailed rankly against the wall, and fell in crawling branches over the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia — Complete] Reference
I got down on my knees and, parting the grass which grew there rankly, I put my face in against the iron bars that closed it. From Wordnik.com. [Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders] Reference
When one sees these things and a hundred other as rankly fraudulent, one should not wonder at anything American connected with dollars. From Wordnik.com. [Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated] Reference
On the one hand, the Hebrew psalms are the only religious poetry on earth; yet they contain sallies that savour rankly of the man of blood. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in the Art of Writing] Reference
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