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scrofulous

[ UK /skɹˈɒfjʊləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. morally contaminated
    denounce the scrofulous wealth of the times
  2. having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula
    our canoe...lay with her scrofulous sides on the shore
  3. afflicted with scrofula

How To Use scrofulous In A Sentence

  • And most of them were scrofulous and all of them were evil,
  • denounce the scrofulous wealth of the times
  • No king touched so much for the king's evil, that class of unpleasant glandular and scrofulous disorders that kings were reputed to be able to cure.
  • Some of those who parted with their money to bet on the really scrofulous nags would undoubtedly say that was the best place for them.
  • He was pink-eyed, with thinning red hair, and had suspiciously scrofulous looking skin. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
  • Nevertheless to those weak habits with pale skins and large pupils of the eyes, whose degree of irritability is less than health requires, as in scrofulous, hysterical, and sonic consumptive constitutions, Note VII
  • He was pink-eyed, with thinning red hair, and had suspiciously scrofulous looking skin. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
  • There are tins of chickpeas and tuna in there, bags of pasta and boxes of muesli packaged to look like they were harvested by scrofulous characters from a Thomas Hardy novel when they were really made on an industrial estate off the arse-end of Basingstoke. Restaurant review: the British Larder
  • Using their grotesquely overdeveloped herd instinct and ability to believe any scrofulous thing about the opposition, the Right have almost literally been able to project their creepy reality onto the U.S. for many years. Think Progress » Wall Street Journal op-ed propagates Rasmussen’s false claim that he’s ‘never’ worked for a political party.
  • When people claim to be reincarnated, for some reason, they tend to have been the Queen of Sheba, and not some scrofulous beggar.
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