cankerous

How to use cankerous in a sentence

• He determined—in the Paris way—to put an end to his cankerous hope, and to his life—together.

  Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 | Various

• His heart was stirred to its depths by the reference to the past trouble which lay like a cankerous sore so deep down in it.

  The Twins of Suffering Creek | Ridgwell Cullum

• Anger and Worry are Parasites Anger and worry are as much parasites as are the cankerous worms that attack plants.

  Menticulture | Horace Fletcher

• But the lovely aromas in that enchanted air did at last seem to dispel, for a moment, the cankerous thing in his soul.

  Moby Dick; or The Whale | Herman Melville

• The most cankerous conflict of the age might have been spared and the problems resulting therefrom less perplexing.

  Lincoln, the Politician | T. Aaron Levy