scabrous

How To Use scabrous In A Sentence

• The scars on her face and neck are still scabrous, crusted with blood and grayish pus. THE SAVAGE GIRL
• They are intentionally, indeed overinsistently, scabrous; and they are conscientiously repetitious in their linear, timeless design.
• Her face buried itself in his scabrous shirt.
• What is it that I, wholly unreliable narrator, belittler of common customs, frenetic workhorse, a mixture of dash-punk here and there, an ideological specimen or perhaps a political curiousity to be left as a scabrous object in the cabinet, must promise? Excerpt from Calembouria (in collaboration with Anthony Metivier)
• His face was scabrous and lumpy, his flesh a sickly shade toward green.
• In the end, it proves disastrous - disastrous for complexity, analysis, richness, variegation - for the novel to conjure its vision of Texas from a scabrous adolescent narrator.
• After encounters with ‘a scabrous German shepherd’ and ‘two blood-eyed mastiffs’, he walks past two ‘copulating dogs’ on his way to talk to Maximo, another shark-man.
• (squamulose), rough (scabrous), dotted, lacerated, or be marked with a network of veins (reticulated). Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
• The base color of these dull boxes was an equally dull grey; where in the past people had tried to apply paint, either to cover the entire building or as crude advertisements, the paint remained only in patches, as if the buildings had some kind of scabrous disease. The Eagle And The Nightingale
• On a side note, never have I seen so many reviews spontaneously choose to use the word "scabrous" at once. link Assorted Film News