rancor.

A persistent feeling of bitter resentment or ill will.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• without rancor
• lasting rancor

On the page

He spoke without rancor, which made the accusation harder to dismiss.

Years of rancor lay beneath their practiced civility.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.