scabrous

How To Use scabrous In A Sentence

• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• The film is a joy - hilariously funny and unremittingly scabrous.
• 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
• 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.
• 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!’
• The room looks better with scabrous, undecorated walls that it ever did with that uninspired wallpaper.
• 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.
• They are intentionally, indeed overinsistently, scabrous; and they are conscientiously repetitious in their linear, timeless design.