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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



... this fact, let us analyze the word rough. In its literal application, it may designate any surface that has ridges, projections, or inequalities and is therefore uneven, jagged, rugged, scraggy, or scabrous. Now frequently a man's face or head is rough because unshaved or uncombed; also the fur of an animal is rough. Hence the term could be used for unkempt, disheveled, shaggy, hairy, coarse, bristly. "The child ran its hand over its father's rough cheek" and ...
— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor
... 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 showed through ...
— The Nebuly Coat • John Meade Falkner


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