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Use "cankering" in a sentence
"Love turned to hate and treachery, and bitter, cankering pain."
"A cankering disease, due, it is believed, to the action of certain bacteria, presently seized upon it."
"But it was too much to hope for a long-lasting federal law, if only because of the “cankering jealousy of the general government with which some of the states are so deeply affected.”"