scabrous

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  1. adjective Having or covered with scales or small projections and rough to the touch. See Synonyms at rough.
  2. adjective Difficult to handle; knotty: a scabrous situation.
  3. adjective Dealing with scandalous or salacious material: a scabrous novel.

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  • Capella, standing in front of a tall, particularly scabrous-looking pillar of oolitic limestone, said, with dramatic emphasis, ‘They look like lepers!’ Laura went back to the custodian, bought another set of cards which she thought her son would like, and pointed to where, some distance off, she could see another group of stones. —  The Whispering Knights - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 58
  • Its appearance stopped just short of being scabrous, but in September I'd had the engine overhauled as a birthday present to myself. —  dummy2
  • This was one of the steamers All of the ships had a scabrous, unnatural look about them, an aspect of crippled helplessness. —  133 - The Derelict of Skull Shoal
  • Perhaps Paris 'oddest endorsement came from scabrous, authority-defying comic Lenny Bruce. —  PopMatters
  • Just as when he was in the National Guard and didn't bother to show up, now, as the scabrous consequences of his missteps shake the economy and the world, he doesn't bother to show up. —  The Moderate Voice
 

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  1. Late Latin scabrōsus, from scaber, scabr-, scurfy.

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  1. = French scabreux = Italian scabroso, from Late Latin scabrosus, rough, from Latin scaber, rough, scurfy, from scabere, scratch: see scabies.
 

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