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Cancerous   /kˈænsərəs/   Listen
Cancerous

adjective
1.
Relating to or affected with cancer.
2.
Like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads.  "Pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children"





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"Cancerous" Quotes from Famous Books



... by scientific sanitary engineers. A cancer of the intestines is disagreeable to think about. But when it threatens a patient's life the patient should know the truth and the doctor should operate. Modern society is the patient, and death-dealing sex crimes are the cancerous growth, which must be operated upon. Whenever we allow a neighborhood to maintain houses of prostitution, thus regulating and in a way sanctioning the evil, we are granting a sort of corporation charter for an industry which is run upon business methods. And business, you know, is ...
— Traffic in Souls - A Novel of Crime and Its Cure • Eustace Hale Ball
... fresh lemon juice will alleviate the pain of cancerous ulceration of the tongue. His patient sucked ...
— Food Remedies - Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses • Florence Daniel


Words linked to "Cancerous" :   cancer, malignant, malign


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