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–noun

bitter, rankling resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.



Also, especially British, rancour.



—Related forms

rancored; especially British, rancoured, adjective 



—Synonyms 

bitterness, spite, venom, animosity. See malevolence. 



Malevolence, malignity, rancor suggest the wishing of harm to others. 



Malevolence is a smoldering ill will: a vindictive malevolence in her expression. 



Malignity is a deep-seated and virulent disposition to injure; it is more dangerous than malevolence, because it is not only more completely concealed but it often instigates harmful acts: The malignity of his nature was shocking. 



Rancor is a lasting, corrosive, and implacable hatred and resentment.



—Antonyms 

benevolence





　

Whatever the fate of Neil LaBute's Yank remake of The Wicker Man—which Warner Bros. is releasing this Friday (without advance press screenings) —it's unlikely to generate the enduring passion and rancor inspired by the 1973 occult classic. 



Other British films, such as Peeping Tom, The Devils, Straw Dogs, and A Clockwork Orange, steeped in violence and sexual sadism, have been more controversial; Get Carter, [lionized] by the '90s lad fad, has similarly gained in retrospective glory. 



But The Wicker Man's genre-bending, thematic daring, and tortuous history have made it the U.K.'s definitive cult movie. Equally admired by witchcraft geeks and cineastes, though critically neglected, it has spawned two books, three documentaries, websites, and fan conventions.





detest

vehement, besides a sense of disdain

To detes[t a] combination of ignorance and arrogance.

abhor

a deep-rooted horror or sense of repugnance

Nature abhors [a] vacuum.

abominate

express repulsion toward something thought of as unworthy, unlucky

To abominate [treachery].

grudge

to [hold] a grudge against a former opponent. 

after he and Gillespie come to a [grudging] understanding of one another

El Mariachi is a [reminder] of the cinema's simpler pleasures, where bad guys carry guns and [grudges],

feud

blood feud

The two [tribes] feuded with each other for generations.

as do others involving a [sisterly] feud between Sylvia and Coco.

This is a reference to Eazy-E, Ice Cube's former N.W.A. band mate, with whom he was [feuding] at the time of the movie.

Detest