Accepting
Accepting adjective - Tolerating without protest.
Rabid
Rabid adjective - Feeling or showing anger.
Usage example: he became rabid when the bank manager told him he would lose the family farm if he didn't pay the mortgage
Both words in one sentence
- Sympathy best described using a quote from a review by Roger Ebert for the movie Der Untergang (Downfall) to describe sympathy toward Hitler in the film: "Sympathy I felt in the sense that I would feel it for a rabid dog, while accepting that it must be destroyed."
Source: Sympathy for the Devil
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