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Cankerous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Marked by or infected with canker; ulcerous.

adj. Causing canker; ulcerating.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Infected with canker; ulcerous

adj. Causing canker; ulcerating

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Affecting like a canker.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of the nature of or resembling canker; corrosive; ulcerous; gangrenous: as, a cankerous sore or eruption.

Causing canker; chafing; corroding; ulcerating.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. having an ulcer or canker

Word Usage

"I suspect the cause of much of all this (if you exclude the cankerous meddlings of that fetid pile of manure called politicians) seems to be the constant drive for change – pushed on by the mistaken belief that to get promoted you have to change things."

Equivalent

unhealthy

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

ulcerous consuming

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