excrescence
Example Sentences
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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 • Dec. 23, 2018
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
So-called physical phenomena are a comparatively modern excrescence on the main growth.
From Occultism and Common-Sense by Willson, Beckles