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
In the next stage a soft warty excrescence, which is the matrix of the sore, pushes its way through the true skin by forcing it aside rather than breaking down its substance.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson
