Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Like cancer; virulent; also, affected with cancer.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads
- adj. relating to or affected with cancer
Examples
“The President was infuriated that government efforts to eradicate poverty and improve livelihoods were undermined by what he called cancerous corruption that had eaten into government departments.”
“The results are compelling: The ceramides seem to restrict the growth of blood vessels in cancerous growths.”
“Whatever its origins, we are in danger today of utter destruction by a virulent virus identified as a cancerous self-interest run amuck.”
OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion
“The biggest problem, and it’s taken me a while to work this out, because all the other problems are so vast and so cancerous, is the gearbox.”
“These "cancerous" cells sometimes spread to other parts of the body.”
The Huffington Post: Stephen Barrie, ND: Your Fat Cells Control Your Brain
“But they didn't know what was happening to their life-giving river until someone in the village came across an article titled "Yangtze river 'cancerous' with pollution" that was published in China Daily.”
The Huffington Post: Subhankar Banerjee: From Toilet to Planet: A Brief Journey of Survival
“Pre-malignant, pre-cancerous, meaning that there is scientific evidence that those kinds of polyps that the president has are more than likely -- more likely than other kinds of growth to turn into cancer.”
“Strength is endurance, sustainability, not growth, especially not the kind of cancerous growth we now experience.”
“We are to them a foreign, Western implantation, and the West itself is some kind of cancerous growth that should be reversed.”
“Refusal to face up to reality draws out agony, with a "cancerous" effect on the whole eurozone.”
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