excrescence

Example Sentences

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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

Jewels are to art what celebrities are to society, at best an ornament, more commonly an excrescence.

From Washington Post • May 7, 2015

His tumor is therefore a morbid growth, a new formation, a neoplasm or pseudoplasm, rather than a swelling, a bunch, or an excrescence.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various