scabby
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"My daughter has a rash across her leg, which is scabby and itchy, and my eldest has anxiety and worries constantly about the mould."
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2024
Their life together is tinged with the absence of Lily’s mother, who only occasionally appears, thin-armed and scabby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
He describes reef rashes, sun-caused cataracts, scabby ears, a broken nose, cuts from sea-urchin spines and mottled arms that may presage skin cancer.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2015
Beyond stored scabby remnants, smallpox may still exist in suspended animation within buried corpses or mummified human remains.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2014
Which is probably why Edna raises her scabby hand right away.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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Thus, they would call their dogs and their asses by his name, and the dogs would be the scabbiest in the streets, and the asses the laziest in the market.
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine