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US
/ˈɹænsɪd/
]
[ UK /ɹˈɑːnsɪd/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɑːnsɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition
rancid butter
rancid bacon - smelling of fermentation or staleness
How To Use rancid In A Sentence
- Over the years, I'd gone from what I fondly imagined to be a switched-on, youngish-minded mum to a rancid, middle-aged harridan, glaring at shrieking texting huddles in the street – youngsters I didn't even know, but would consider lightly birching. It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen
- But he insists on painting a picture with the same old hackneyed images and rancid cliches about salt-of-the-earth heartlanders and morally vacant or cowardly coastal cosmopolitans.
- Lamely suave, spouting banalities about pop music and unconscious of his savage condescension toward women, he's a rancid summation of the Playboy ethic.
- By that time the sediment in olio nuovo will have begun to oxidize in a dark pool at the bottom of the bottle, and the oil will become rancid. Domestic Reserves
- The reason cod liver oil tastes the way it does is simply because it is actually rancid. Fats, Nutrition and Health
- What if the food is rancid and you're still stuck with a full plate?
- With a twist she disembowels it, its rancid intestines spilling out onto the floor, and yanks her sword back out of its belly. Session 1: Every New Beginning « Love | Peace | Ohana
- It's the crippled man, yelling into your face, cursing, calling you a thief, his breath phlegmy and rancid. Saying It with Flowers
- There was a rancid smell coming from the kitchen.
- Over the years, I'd gone from what I fondly imagined to be a switched-on, youngish-minded mum to a rancid, middle-aged harridan, glaring at shrieking texting huddles in the street – youngsters I didn't even know, but would consider lightly birching. It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen