How To Use Scabrous In A Sentence
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The scars on her face and neck are still scabrous, crusted with blood and grayish pus.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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They are intentionally, indeed overinsistently, scabrous; and they are conscientiously repetitious in their linear, timeless design.
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Her face buried itself in his scabrous shirt.
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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)
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His face was scabrous and lumpy, his flesh a sickly shade toward green.
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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.
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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.
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(squamulose), rough (scabrous), dotted, lacerated, or be marked with a network of veins (reticulated).
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
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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
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On a side note, never have I seen so many reviews spontaneously choose to use the word "scabrous" at once. link
Assorted Film News
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Tears scald his scabrous cheeks, and he can hardly laugh - even the sardonic bark he reserves for all humanity - without torturing his jaw.
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Lurching and moaning like the undead, their final EP is scabrous and abhorrent listening.
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It's lurid, scabrous, scatological, banal and brilliant.
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Also: "Scabrous fun of a newer stripe, Ã? lex de la Iglesia's The Perfect Crime has this nasty Spaniard, in a crowd of nasty Spaniards, going more and more glitzily commercial.
GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 3/27.
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The film is a joy - hilariously funny and unremittingly scabrous.
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When so much of TV and film is scabrous, parents rightly want to control what their youngsters see and, in response to this need, the world of Kid Vid has emerged.
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Anti-government cartoons in the 1790s often included the most scabrous, even treasonable, representations of King George III.
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The landing was home to a pair of scabrous aging brutes, a wolf dog (I suspect) and a forlorn Great Dane.
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a tenth part of the popularity of his more "scabrous" things, though itself is very far from prudish, and though it makes no appearance in some lists and collections of his work.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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Now it's pig easy to go on the Internet and just grab the planet's most scabrous excesses - absolute debauchery - you lay it out there with the complete sterile access of a surgeon or a medical test.
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The "works on paper" are fascinating: weird and offhand enough to make you doubt they're from Bacon's hand, but also just the kind of scabrous visual notes an artist like Bacon -- who didn't draw much -- would have warmed up to paint with.
True Value
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Their daughter Sally was bright and personable but her liberal husband, Michael, represented all that Archie hated, and the scabrous arguments between the two formed the central conflict from which the comedy flowed.
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Political and journalistic combatants who knew each other socially usually restrained themselves from the kind of scabrous public attack Americans now find so objectionable.
Where The Elite Met
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Others sang to themselves or with long fingernails picked pieces of flesh from scabrous hands.
THE SERPENT'S MARK
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Nobody wants to see 16 in a movie house anymore, unless it's something scabrous or has a lot of sex in it or something like that…
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These from the scabrous canvas of fulgent wastrels and transcendental madmen.
Vacuum City
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As he ran up the flight of stairs, a superior smile twisted his scabrous face.
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scabrous" part of the matter by the author of Diderot's other books.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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Its scabrous skin swelled outward, and its eerie face grew larger and stranger, and its blood-spitting eyes became crystal-shooting eyes.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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The troll's scabrous face fell, and he stopped abruptly.
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But here, "scabrous" as the subject might be, the treatment is scrupulously
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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Dropping the rag over the side of the bedpost, she turned and let the scabrous shard fall into a small bowl on the dresser; it greeted a similarly discordant family with a slight tink of angular metallic collision.
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The only talk in the ward was of the movement of troops, of victories and heroism here, of defeat and scabrous cowardly enemies there.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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The film is a joy - hilariously funny and unremittingly scabrous.
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Despite the subject and the title, there is nothing in the least "scabrous" in it.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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Given the sorry state of the pets for sale in the weekend markets and the indifference of the local population, farangs as well as Thais, to scabrous stray animals this dream was put on hold.
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I'll admit that there's a certain amount of gawp-in-horror entertainment to be had from seeing the scabrous insides of sundry slackers' houses - but the weekly ‘look at the BUGS that were in your carpet!’
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The room looks better with scabrous, undecorated walls that it ever did with that uninspired wallpaper.
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What had once been a set of four horrible, deep pits in her hand - two on her palm and two on the back - had turned into a scabrous mass of clotted blood.
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They are intentionally, indeed overinsistently, scabrous; and they are conscientiously repetitious in their linear, timeless design.
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Oh, one more thing, please ignore the snide remark some scabrous graffito vandal appended to the end of the article.
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Not all the ‘women whom he chose to love’ shared this lady's antipathy, as we learn from the gallant, erotic, or downright scabrous poems they occasioned.
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He, by stark contrast, was scabrous and confessional, sexy, vernacular, and totally unpredictable.
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I cling to the belief that my below-the-line critics on this column would be less scabrous to my face.
And Zuckerberg created man ... and The Social Network
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The landing was home to a pair of scabrous aging brutes, a wolf dog (I suspect) and a forlorn Great Dane.
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An audible hissing pop accompanied the loosening of the last bolt, and at the sight of my leprous fore-arms and the great plates of scabrous horn which have overgrown my chest, the roust-abouts screamed like a pair of God-damned fat ladies.
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a scabrous novel
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The gargoyles are functionless and the half-timbered effect of the East wing, which is a later addition and houses a billiard room, is entirely bogus, the timbers being painted on to a surface of scabrous cement.
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‘You have to acknowledge that the Scots tradition is very adept at the scabrous song,’ says the singer.
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What had once been a set of four horrible, deep pits in her hand - two on her palm and two on the back - had turned into a scabrous mass of clotted blood.
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This time out I'm happy to report (only because I don't have to live with the guy) that he's as scabrous and brutal as all his little goat-children could've hoped.
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EREMOPHILA MITCHELLII; a singular little POLYGONUM with the aspect of a TILLOEA; two very distinct little FRANKENIAS101, and a new scabrous HALORAGIS with pinnatifid leaves. 102 The extensive burning by the natives, a work of considerable labour, and performed in dry warm weather, left tracts in the open forest, which had become green as an emerald with the young crop of grass.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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The film is a joy - hilariously funny and unremittingly scabrous.
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Most of the stripped down monologue consists of a topless Dee Dee baring his soul and his scabrous white chest, which starkly contrasts against the black backdrop.
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The gargoyles are functionless and the half-timbered effect of the East wing, which is a later addition and houses a billiard room, is entirely bogus, the timbers being painted on to a surface of scabrous cement.
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Mengele, she believes, chose her for this favoured project because, although sick and lousy, her flesh was remarkably unmarked - Mengele had an aversion to scarred or scabrous skin.
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My knees were a scabrous ruin, looking somewhat like an archaeological dig; you could see the layers of skin eroded around the edge, several separate moist circles as I scrubbed my epidermis down to the muscle.
Have It Your Way
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Behind her scuffled two scrawny roosters, whose red, fleshy combs hung raggedly on the scabrous skin of their necks.
DANSVILLE
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After an unnerving 45-minute ride on scabrous rural roads (one pothole too many and my rented '80s Honda 50 cc would have gone flying), I came across a tiny town.
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Usually described as a ballad opera - which makes it sound safe - it is a play with songs, the songs in question being popular pieces of the day, fitted with new lyrics that formed scabrous takes on the original words.
