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Definition of rankling : of Rankle

Synonyms:

carking, rebarbative, nettling, riling, galling, abrasive, frustrating, pestilential, plaguey, vexatious, pestilent, pesky, pesty, maddening, nettlesome, pestiferous

infuriating, bothering, exasperating, exacerbating, badgering, annoying, teasing, grating, pestering, upsetting, nagging, chafing, harrying, inflaming, perturbing, irksome, hassling, harassing, needling, fretting, baiting, troubling, enraging, disturbing, bothersome, discomposing, arousing, bedeviling, peeving, irritating, aggravating, envenoming, tormenting, vexing, troublesome, irking, antagonizing

Usage examples:

• This jealousy rankling within them, they now with angry exultation took occasion to mock and abuse her. - "The Eternal Maiden", T. Everett Harré.
• Yet I dreaded to break it, lest any wounds rankling beneath might thereby be caused to smart once more. - "John Halifax, Gentleman", Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.
• She had been accustomed to regard Jill's flirtation from a mental height of affectionate disdain, to laugh with purest amusement at her assumption of superiority, but now of a sudden indifference had changed to anger and a sore rankling of jealousy, which puzzled as much as it disturbed. - "Betty Trevor", Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey.