Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affected with canker; as, a cankered tree.
- Ill-natured; cross; crabbed; venomous; malignant; wicked.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Affected with canker.
- adjective Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
canker .
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Examples
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For we who are about to die, we saw a shape in war, a blind, castrated wreck with cankered mind in flail of fury, saw it lamed,
The Lucifer Cantos 10/13 Hal Duncan 2009
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All candidates in Chicago's mayoral race have one thing in common: Like millions of afflicted Chicago residents, they're all breathing the same cankered air from the city's two infamous Model-T-era coal-fired plants.
Jeff Biggers: Rahm, Carol, Tom, Luis and Rev. Meeks: Chicago's Next Green Mayor Will Join Sunday's Clean Air Race Jeff Biggers 2010
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All candidates in Chicago's mayoral race have one thing in common: Like millions of afflicted Chicago residents, they're all breathing the same cankered air from the city's two infamous Model-T-era coal-fired plants.
Jeff Biggers: Rahm, Carol, Tom, Luis and Rev. Meeks: Chicago's Next Green Mayor Will Join Sunday's Clean Air Race Jeff Biggers 2010
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For we who are about to die, we saw a shape in war, a blind, castrated wreck with cankered mind in flail of fury, saw it lamed,
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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All candidates in Chicago's mayoral race have one thing in common: Like millions of afflicted Chicago residents, they're all breathing the same cankered air from ...
Jeff Biggers: Rahm, Carol, Tom, Luis and Rev. Meeks: Chicago's Next Green Mayor Will Join Sunday's Clean Air Race Jeff Biggers 2010
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All candidates in Chicago's mayoral race have one thing in common: Like millions of afflicted Chicago residents, they're all breathing the same cankered air from the city's two infamous Model-T-era coal-fired plants.
Jeff Biggers: Rahm, Carol, Tom, Luis and Rev. Meeks: Chicago's Next Green Mayor Will Join Sunday's Clean Air Race Jeff Biggers 2010
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All candidates in Chicago's mayoral race have one thing in common: Like millions of afflicted Chicago residents, they're all breathing the same cankered air from the city's two infamous Model-T-era coal-fired plants.
Jeff Biggers: Rahm, Carol, Tom, Luis and Rev. Meeks: Chicago's Next Green Mayor Will Join Sunday's Clean Air Race Jeff Biggers 2010
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All candidates in Chicago's mayoral race have one thing in common: Like millions of afflicted Chicago residents, they're all breathing the same cankered air from the city's two infamous Model-T-era coal-fired plants.
Jeff Biggers: Rahm, Carol, Tom, Luis and Rev. Meeks: Chicago's Next Green Mayor Will Join Sunday's Clean Air Race Jeff Biggers 2010
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All candidates in Chicago's mayoral race have one thing in common: Like millions of afflicted Chicago residents, they're all breathing the same cankered air from the city's two infamous Model-T-era coal-fired plants.
Jeff Biggers: Rahm, Carol, Tom, Luis and Rev. Meeks: Chicago's Next Green Mayor Will Join Sunday's Clean Air Race Jeff Biggers 2010
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Crucifixes, vestments, wax apples green or cankered.
'The Pregnant Widow' 2010
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