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pimple

noun as in small swelling on the skin

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Getting a pimple on the morning of the prom can be life and death for a teenager.

“I think this is a pimple on the ass of progress,” said the senior adviser.

Smith screwed his face and squeezed a pimple on his throat; Steelman absently counted the flies on the wall.

The pimple is a diminutive hill or pock, and the pykes of Cumberland are the peaks of Derbyshire.

To have a rifle is as ridiculous as to have a pimple at the end of your nose, or a bailiff waiting for you round the corner.

Pustule, pus′tūl, n. a small pimple containing pus: anything like a pustule, on plants or animals: a small blister.

He examines and refreshes his complexion by it, and is more dejected at a pimple than if it were a cancer.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pimple, such as: acne, blemish, blister, lump, abscess, and blackhead.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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