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As the play begins, Carol is on the phone with his caregiver, rancorously discussing medications and his latest bout of respiratory problems.

From New York Times • May 1, 2015

In the stormy two-day Commons debate on his measures, the attacks of the Labor opposition had a new, almost rancorously personal note.

From Time Magazine Archive

The union has been coolly received by Egyptians, who recall how a similar federation with Syria dissolved rancorously a decade ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

This time he talked very rationally, not rancorously.

From Time Magazine Archive

The "business of the frogs," to which the dean so rancorously alluded, had, indeed, caused some consternation to the fellows of——.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various