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What does rancid mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word rancid? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Rank in taste or smell.
  2. Offensive.
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In order to maximize profits from their government contracts, food suppliers delivered partial shipments and rancid provisions.
That's as rancid a set of entrails as was ever extracted from a Roman pullet.
The group charges that irradiation also deactivates the natural digestive enzymes found in raw food, and encourages fats to turn rancid.
Boiling pools of dark mysterious liquid puff smoke of rancid sulphur fumes.
When exposed to air for extended periods of time, fats become rancid and develop an unpleasant taste and odor.
Public life has been debased by the rancid culture of personality politics.

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