festered
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The “ignominy” of missing action, we are told, remained a “badge of shame” that festered for the rest of his life, “driving him to seek reckless vindication” in confrontations with other men of his class.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
But the chaos Yoon unleashed that night has festered.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2025
Resentment festered in the meantime, as Bush and his peers questioned why the school hadn’t fought harder to defend him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024
Wilson’s lead is a working-class Black man, a former Negro league superstar whose dreams festered when baseball’s color barrier prevented him from rising into the big leagues.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024
If the rise of farming was thus a bonanza for our microbes, the rise of cities was a greater one, as still more densely packed human populations festered under even worse sanitation conditions.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
