rancid
adjective
having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste, as through decomposition, especially of fats or oils.
rancidness
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a word derived from
rancid.
Example Sentences
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What’s more, their rancidness provided a faint, secondary consolation: We were right.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2017
Rashers of quite unbelievable rancidness, and “nice eggs,” in boiling which poultry, in its early promise, was not unfrequently made an untimely end of, were the chief articles of consumption.
From Seven Frozen Sailors by George Manville Fenn
The first thing Bud noticed was the barn's odor, pungent and sweet, with only a faint suggestion of rancidness.
From The Black Fawn by James Arthur Kjelgaard
From this food their flesh has contracted a rancidness which occasions them to be rejected by nicer judges of eating, who thought them before a delicate dish.
From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
From this food their flesh has contracted a rancidness which occasions them to be rejected by nicer judges of eating, who thought them before a delicate dish.
From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Henry Morley
