Rancorous in a sentence

A bizzare scene on Tuesday evening took the shine off the thus far rancorous Kogi governorship election.

And after a rancorous build-up that has come in below even boxing’s lenient standards for poor taste, the opening bell can’t come soon enough.

For many followers of cricket the birth of the Hundred was particularly divisive, rancorous and controversial.

The first TV debate of the SNP leadership contest was a rancorous affair, with the three candidates attacking each other as well as the party's record in government and in the pursuit of independence.

The rancorous campaign ended up in court at the end of 2021, with both sides hurling accusations against the other.

Offering Americans a more inspiring democratic project could change some minds, win over some voters and offer some hope for a less rancorous public life.

The conference was rancorous from its outset.

Bakare continued: “I have a word for some Yoruba people whose stock in trade is nothing but a rancorous noise characterised by bitterness and resentment about the ancestry of the former two-term governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

After leading the Texas House of Representatives to one of its least rancorous and most productive sessions in decades, House Speaker Dennis Bonnen snatched defeat from the jaws of victory over the summer.

APC First to throw its weight behind the call for the resignation of Oshiomhole is the Imo State chapter of the party, which noted that the leadership of the former Edo State governor had become rancorous and no longer in the interest of the party.

By including Roethlisberger, 37, in his tweeted complaints, Brown continued a rancorous relationship between the two stars and former longtime teammates.

As adults, the siblings have earned a reputation over their infighting, which has spilled into rancorous lawsuits over heirlooms including their father's Bible and Nobel Peace Prize.

Despite Moscow’s rancorous relationship with the United States and Europe, investors have tiptoed back into Russian stocks and bonds over the last year, as the economy proved resilient to the raft of sanctions in recent years.

Instead, Donald Trump sparked rancorous criticism after cancelling a visit at the last minute to an American war cemetery near Paris because of rain.

President Donald Trump’s controversial nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, has been sworn in following weeks of rancorous debate.

The signing of the deal is symbolic as Qatar has been isolated by a group of neighboring countries and former allies, including the United Arab Emirates, for the past nine months in a rancorous political, diplomatic and economic dispute.

The Times says civil servants are making quiet preparations for the possibility of a rancorous leadership contest in the closing stages of Brexit talks later this year.

Yet he found the dysfunction and gridlock of the nation's capital dispiriting; so, too, the zero-sum calculus of its rancorous politics.

An increasingly assertive Parliament frequently challenged President Wahid's policies and prerogatives, contributing to a lively and sometimes rancorous national political debate.