excrescence

Example Sentences

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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

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

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 Knowles, John