cankerous

Example Sentences

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On the surface, this collaboration with Troye Sivan features nonsensical, distorted lyrics about zooming on a jet ski and heavy on the cankerous noises.

From The Guardian • Dec. 26, 2019

I admire the trickery of his work, the cankerous skin, which is nice and grungy.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2016

Arriving in Belfast for a "learn-and-listen" visit, British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling heard enough to convince him that the new Tory government had inherited a cankerous problem.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Cullum, Ridgwell

In vain the massy bars, cemented with their cankerous rust, opposed my entrance—in vain the heated suffocating damps enveloped me—in vain the hungry flames flashed their vengeance round me!

From Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden by Morton, Thomas