cankerous
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- adjective
- /ˈkæŋkərəs/
- Archaic
:
cancroso
- "There is nothing," he intones, "nothing so pathetic and cankerous and offensive in a man as the combination of physical and moral cowardice."
Examples
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Your mother's a cankerous whore!
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Suppose you were a milkman with rotting teeth and cankerous lips.
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Remember way back when I said your mother was a cankerous whore?
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You and that cankerous fucking wife didn't want children anyway, did you?
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Suppose you were a milkman with rotting teeth and cankerous lips...
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Or is it really the slowest, most painful, and cankerous ethnic cleansing in the history of mankind?
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Is that what you think will help reconstruct the old hierarchies and bring phallocentrism to its cankerous knees?
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For everyone's sake, I wanted to bring phallocentrism to its cankerous knees, but how exactly could I go about it? "I'm quite happy," I said, "to go along with whatever you all decide."
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And then one night, those demonic deceivers of suicidal destruction imposed their poisonous and cankerous will upon this sweet, unblemished child of innocence and grace and ordered her to climb to the top of the tower.
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The doctor diagnosed her with a cankerous sore that required treatment.
Synonyms
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Causing open sores on the skin or inside the body
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Having a sore on the skin or inside the body that does not heal
The skin or inside of the body has open sores
Something rotten inside or with deep bitter feelings
Antonyms
How Ulcerous
- Specialized
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- Specialized
- Specialized
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- Archaic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cankerous comes from canker, which traces back to the old Latin cancer meaning 'crab' and later 'ulcer', and it shares the same root as the disease cancer. So cankerous describes something like an ulcer or sore, something rotten, painful, and likely to spread.