excrescence
Example Sentences
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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 ● Jul. 28, 2021
Things didn't improve from there, with the Observer calling it "shameless excrescence" in 2017.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2020
Its head is a sculptural confection of broken cycles, its rear a writhing excrescence of black rubber loops.
From Economist ● Oct. 26, 2017
This ravishing excrescence reminded me of a shipwreck-themed Alexander McQueen show from 2002, which opened with a video of a drowning girl.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2016
O'Byrn told himself fiercely that it could not be, that earth must long since have wearied of such an excrescence and cast it forth to annihilation.
From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman
