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excrescence

[ik-skres-uhns] / ɪkˈskrɛs əns /


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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

Proud′-flesh, a growth or excrescence of flesh in a wound.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various




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