excrescence
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“Do you take this excrescence to be your husband?”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 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
“It is the most absorbing of occupations, the least satisfying of desires, an aimless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man.”
From The Guardian ● Sep. 14, 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
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