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comparative more cankerous, superlative most cankerous
Infected with canker; ulcerous. examples
Causing canker; ulcerating. quotations examples
Hither may come the prisoner, escaping from his dark and narrow cell and cankerous chain, to breathe free air in this enchanted atmosphere.
1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Hall of Fantasy”, in Mosses from an Old Manse