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cankered
[ kang-kerd ]
adjective
- morally corrupt.
- (of plants)
- destroyed or having portions destroyed by the feeding of a cankerworm.
- having a cankerous part; infected with a canker.
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Other Words From
- cankered·ly adverb
- cankered·ness noun
- un·cankered adjective
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Example Sentences
Why is a cankered tie indissoluble, notwithstanding the great maxim adopted by the code, Quicquid ligatur dissolubile est?
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One of them spoke of such charming impudence, and George looked at her with his cankered eye.
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He has become rotten without ever being ripe, the flower to which he should have attained has been cankered in the bud.
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"The fruit is the cankered effort of a barren tree," cast back Weng over his shoulder.
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Is not thy effrontery impenetrable, and thy heart thoroughly cankered?
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