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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