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Scabrous   Listen
adjective
Scabrous  adj.  
1.
Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.
2.
Fig.: Harsh; unmusical. (R.) "His verse is scabrous and hobbling."





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"Scabrous" Quotes from Famous Books



... It was not ruinous, but Ichabod was written on the paintless window-frames and on the rough-cast front, from which the plaster had fallen away in more than one place. The pillars of the porch had been painted to imitate marble, but they were marked with scabrous patches, where the brick core ...
— The Nebuly Coat • John Meade Falkner


Words linked to "Scabrous" :   dirty, scaly, biology, rough, leprose, unsmooth


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