excrescence
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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
To press a button and see your own excrescence appear in the preordained format, minted, can feel like a kind of magic.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2020
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
Thus Homer describes; this is the mystery, without which the most exquisite description becomes an excrescence, and only clogs and wearies the indignant and disappointed reader.
From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by John Knowles
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