She should be scorned for the cankerous cretin that she is. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Five more U.S. soldiers die in Iraq.] Reference
Like a cankerous malady its venom has touched almost every side of American life. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
The army out of the north spread like a blight around Olossi, dark and cankerous. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
He scraped its surface to remove the hard brown cankerous coating of wax, and beheld a pea. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
I thought I'd join the callous, cankerous, and cantankerous commenters' point of view for a change to see how it felt. From Wordnik.com. [What does Barack Obama really think about affirmative action?] Reference
The accelerated advance of Dimitrijevic through the ranks serves proof of the growing influence of his cankerous outfit. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
The vote-snatching statute is a cankerous codicil slipped into the 2002 Help America Vote Act -- strategically timed to go into effect in this mid-term year. From Wordnik.com. [Here's how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen.] Reference
The vote-snatching statute is a cankerous codicil slipped into the 2002 Help America Vote Act †strategically timed to go into effect in this mid-term year. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Robo calls, push polls and other dirty tricks.] Reference
So the more one reads of late Roth, the more one is convinced that he is writing against extinction, that he works to the sound of death panting behind him, feels its cankerous breath on his neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Nihilist] Reference
This observer claimed to have discovered in the cankerous secretions the existence of a vegetable parasite (namely, a cryptogam, as in favus), which he termed the keraphyton, or parasitic plant of the horn. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
All that dark, cankerous blotch, a nations criminal mass, 15. From Wordnik.com. [Singer in the Prison, The] Reference
The gums and lips were in a dreadfully cankerous state, and the dog was unable to eat. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
But when the consciousness of possession became marred by a cankerous doubt, such rumours were very important. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
Often, the plot trickles into the cankerous realm of melodrama, with the subjects losing all contact with reality. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Tar Heel RSS] Reference
But the lovely aromas in that enchanted air did at last seem to dispel, for a moment, the cankerous thing in his soul. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
Hither may come the prisoner, escaping from his dark and narrow cell and cankerous chain, to breathe free air in this enchanted atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [The Hall of Fantasy (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")] Reference
He still wrote on -- for it is marvellous how the pen will travel and the mind will project itself into the shadow-world of fancy while cankerous care gnaws the weary heart. From Wordnik.com. [Charlotte's Inheritance] Reference
In vain the massy bars, cemented with their cankerous rust, opposed my entrance -- in vain the heated suffocating damps enveloped me -- in vain the hungry flames flashed their vengeance round me!. From Wordnik.com. [Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden] Reference
Like a cankerous thorn in the white man's heart. From Wordnik.com. [Obi Melodrama Act I, Obi, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles] Reference
It is a deep and cankerous insult to the Corps. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » “Americans will speak of the battles like Fallujah] Reference
But what a cankerous end was here. From Wordnik.com. [City of Endless Night] Reference
And speech engendered cankerous hate. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
To watch her sister's cankerous care. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
To watch her sister's cankerous care 300. From Wordnik.com. [Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems] Reference
The vines were brown with cankerous rust. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
(Misdeem it not a cankerous change) may grow. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England] Reference
Of what makes life foul, cankerous, and abhorred. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2] Reference
In whose mouths abide cankerous words. From Wordnik.com. [University of California, Riverside Campus News] Reference
And from disease, or sorrow's cankerous blight. From Wordnik.com. [The progress of civil society : a didactic poem, in six books] Reference
"That cankerous boaster?". From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
"cankerous," "actuary," and "cryptography.". From Wordnik.com. [FortBendNow.com] Reference
“I’m puttin’ it down now, ye cankerous maw worm.”. From Wordnik.com. [Much Ado About Marriage] Reference
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