verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His casual style of dress rankled his superiors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although such incidents rankled, the cutter crews' sense of humour soon surfaced to erase the bad memories.
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But Tasini was never paid extra for the electronic rights to his writing and this rankled him.
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Greg's jibe about the dress being like a shroud rankled.
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Suggestions of inferiority have long rankled in a city where image has been an obsession for more than a century.
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The implications of this remark rankled with us deeply.