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adjective

Definition of ranklingnext
as in irritating
causing annoyance for some air travelers, the most rankling aspect of the security measures seems to be the restrictions regarding carry-on baggage

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rankling

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verb

present participle of rankle
1
as in raging
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger that kind of rude treatment from a young person makes me rankle

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as in angering
to make angry it rankles me when some schools can't even afford paper and pencils for the students

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rankling
  1. irritating
  2. raging
  3. angering
  4. annoying
  5. frustrating
  6. burning
  7. disturbing
  8. seething
Adjective
  • Inspiring or irritating, empowering or exploitative, maternal or manipulative — with many shades of gray in between — female mentorship is a common dynamic in many of 2024’s most affecting stories.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Windows 11 is still an appalling tablet OS with a crippling lack of touch-friendly apps, and the stylus has an irritating input lag that makes scribbling on screen unsatisfactory.
    Barry Collins, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of irritating
Verb
  • Here is the list of fighters that gained immortality as a result of this raging inferno.
    Interesting Engineering, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Showrunner Patrick Sean Smith confirmed the departure in a wide-raging interview with Deadline addressing Season 6 and 7 burning questions.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of raging
Verb
  • Around 10 individuals ran onto the court waving Palestinian flags, angering hundreds of attendees from the French Jewish community cheering for the Israeli team.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2024
  • With some true detective work, Flueger quickly discovers that pigeons are trying to claim squatter rights a bit too close higher up, angering the furry felines.
    Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of angering
Adjective
  • By Marci Robin December 19, 2024 Normally, know-it-alls are kind of annoying.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 19 Dec. 2024
  • But for Netflix’s biggest series, as annoying as this is, there are not exactly mountains of evidence that this matters for its biggest series.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of annoying
Adjective
  • However, the past two seasons have been frustrating for Alexander, as injuries have plagued him since his career year in 2022.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The near silence from our own government over the past 12 days has been frustrating.
    Tony Hunter, Hartford Courant, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of frustrating
Verb
  • Of course, dogs don’t understand the cultural connotation of a large burning hemp joint.
    Annemarie Dooling, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • News of the burning Christmas tree generated headlines around the world as the Islamist faction that toppled ex-President Bashar al-Assad aims to restore peace in the nation.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of burning
Adjective
  • Duchamp spent the last twenty years of his life working in secret on a three-dimensional tableau vivant of a naked, headless female body in a realistic landscape, a strangely disturbing image that is both a summary of his meta-retinal art and a total departure from it.
    Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • One of the more disturbing results was from the dinner party at the Brooklyn apartment of my ProPublica colleague.
    Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of disturbing
Verb
  • Cox and his team were brought in by a handful of wealthy Colorado ranch owners who were still seething over the ballot measure to introduce wolves that passed in 2020 by less than one percent.
    Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Dead to Me got off to a compelling start thanks to its tight focus on Applegate’s seething widow character, Jen; Cardellini’s dreamy, eccentric, secret-harboring Judy; and the electricity of the interdependent friendship that forms so quickly between these two lonely women.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of seething
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