rankness

IPA: rˈæŋknʌs

noun

  • The quality of being rank, of having a repulsive or pungent odor.
  • Exuberant or uncontrolled growth.
  • (obsolete) Exuberance, excessiveness.
  • (obsolete) Insolence.
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Examples of "rankness" in Sentences

  • Related: Wev McEwan on the Rank and File's rankness.
  • It can be quite spicy, but there is a rankness to it I didn't quite like.
  • And we should think nothing of informing them immediately that their rankness needs to be addressed.
  • He curses the sunlight, the earth and all of its people, the fetid alcohol rankness of his own breath.
  • It also spoke of her addiction, currently being fed; stale sweat and the rankness of bad, chemical-filled blood.
  • Indeed, he believed that in popularly elected governments, parties would display their "greatest rankness" and emerge as the "worst enemy" to the political system.
  • It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy ….
  • It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
  • And while the noisome traveler was not a terrorist in the post-9/11 sense and didn't pose an immediate physical threat to the plane or its passengers directly, her rankness terrorized my nose and its owner.

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