excrescence

Example Sentences

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If the pronoun police of Wisconsin’s Kiel Area School District were just another woke excrescence on American education, they would be merely local embarrassments.

From Washington Post

One British news report from the era featured an interview with a bloke on the street who described it as “an abortion — it’s an excrescence.”

From Los Angeles Times

The ceiling was unbreached, the man said, and added, a little starchily, that the excrescence clearly was what it appeared to be.

From Washington Post

These excrescences can’t be good for the tree, but they sure make it distinctive.

From Washington Post

“Do you take this excrescence to be your husband?”

From Washington Post