cankerous
- s having an ulcer or canker
- Arriving in Belfast for a "learn-and-listen" visit, British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling heard enough to convince him that the new Tory government had inherited a cankerous .
- The conscience of France may sometimes have seemed quiet, but it has also been deeply troubled by the cankerous, six-year war in Algeria.
- In proud and prejudiced Argentina the cankerous issue of neutrality broke out again last week.