rankle in the PONS Dictionary

rankle Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to rankle with sb
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The unions estimate there is now a more than a 20% pay gap between the two categories, which rankles with their members.
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It clearly rankles with the director that the lawsuit came between them.
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The extension's design is only faintly surreal; that it isn't absolutely surreal, or indeed brut, rankles.
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Probably this aborted rejection continued to rankle.
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The couple rankles at the suggestion that they turn to government programs for special assistance with the cost of the medical formula.
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This action by his father rankled with him all his life.
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However, there are certain consequential strangers from whom escape is impossiblea coworker, neighbor, or teacher that rankles.
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The latter phrase particularly rankled advocates of science fiction and frequently recurs when her writing is discussed.
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He continued to target sponsors whose advertising copy rankled him, and those barbs didn't always sit well with his new sponsors, either.
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This rankled many, but others explained that she was trying to protect her family.
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