scabby
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Some days were clean, and then some days he was scabby and flaking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
"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
I caught a glimpse of ruined bungalows and scabby pastures, and at a hill-like dump, a pack of dogs tearing at garbage.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2020
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
I shrugged, and small pains shot through my scabby shoulders.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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
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