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  • I must say that I cannot recall rancorousness on your part, however.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • She notes that the "intolerance for ideas falling outside the known and accepted tropes of the left is so deep and wide as to render them incapable of listening without a jeering rancorousness to the words of fellow student Anthony Mascheck--a heroic wounded vet arguing in favor of reinstating Columbia's ROTC program after a four-decade ban--who sits, wheelchair-bound."

    Incivility on the left 2011

  • I have noticed that the rancorousness has gone elsewhere and more thought is now going into both postings and responses.

    Anyone else think posts have declined,since pay per view?nfm 2003

  • Now the violence of party leaders like Burke and Fox owed much of its strength, no doubt, to mere rancorousness of party spirit.

    The Critical Period of American History John Fiske 1871

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