cankered

American  

[kang-kerd] / ˈkæŋ kərd /

adjective

1. morally corrupt.

2. bad-tempered.

3. (of plants)

   1. destroyed or having portions destroyed by the feeding of a cankerworm.

   2. having a cankerous part; infected with a canker.

4. ulcerated.

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Other Word Forms

• cankeredness
  noun
• uncankered
  adjective
• cankeredly
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of cankered

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; see origin at canker, -ed ³

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

cankered

He has suffered for it: his health debilitated by frequent hunger strikes, his knees cankered with sores from long sessions of prayer, according to prison officials.

From Time ● Jul. 28, 2010

Hamlet paused before coming to his point “I wish to discover whether a surgeon, by cutting out the cankered spot, could restore the vital spirit to perfection.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

He had, it was asserted, "cankered the principles of republicanism" "and carried his designs against the public liberty so far as to put in jeopardy its very existence."

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark

"The balm of time," replied the gipsy, unmoved, "which, as I know by the experience of many sorrows, can take the venom from the most cankered wound!"

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The bare suspicion becomes a certainty in the minds of those who were once that man's friends.—And his life is cankered at the outset.

From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Sir Walter Besant

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