[ adj ] showing deep-seated resentment <adj.all> preserve...from rancourous envy of the rich
Rancorous \Ran"cor*ous\ (r[a^][ng]"k[~e]r*[u^]s), a. [OF. rancuros.] Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent.
So flamed his eyes with rage and rancorous ire. --Spenser.
She needs the support of a rancorous political opposition for a two-thirds vote in the Senate, where the right-wing Islamic Democratic Alliance dominates.
'He could never stand rancorous politics,' said one.
But in a Congress still hurting from the rancorous debate earlier this year over pay raises for members, the provision seems sure to face a tough road when House and Senate members meet in conference in early September to craft a final defense blueprint.
For example, when this meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries officially opened last Wednesday, the mood seemed rancorous, causing oil markets to plummet.
At the next meeting, he proposed a resolution that went something like this: "May we carry on this proceeding with a level of civility not heretofore exhibited." But things have only gotten more rancorous.
The arbitration decision ends a rancorous five-year legal battle that began when McClatchy published an article about alleged illegal profit-skimming operations at a Nevada casino when it was owned by Mr. Laxalt and his brother.
A senior member of the House Armed Services Committee said Friday that if the Bush administration adopts a partisan approach to closing military bases, a rancorous fight with Congress is certain.
The bipartisan leadership of Congress issued a joint statement expressing support for the Republican president, a step that was unheard of in the rancorous and bitter partisan debates that marked major foreign policy actions in the Reagan administration.
Mr Clinton has made possible a less rancorous and more constructive relationship.
However, it said other officials praised the process that produced the reports, saying they were less rancorous than interagency meetings conducted during the Reagan administration.
That campaign has taken a more rancorous tone in its last days, with the government using the slogan "Only opposition: that's no proposition" to attack Solidarity.
The result is an escalation of the long, rancorous war between the secular public and the Orthodox Jewish parties which can make and break Israeli governments.
The increasing number of these "en banc" rehearings sparked unusually rancorous discord among the D.C. Circuit judges in 1987.
"Cause" lawyers, they say, often lack an adequate understanding of their adversaries' positions, forcing the parties into rancorous, costly lawsuits when more amicable resolutions might be possible.
Home Owners fired the accountants Dec. 16 after the rancorous dispute, and replaced them with Price Waterhouse, according to filings at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.