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
"It was a busy weekend and there were a lot of people ready for a day out. There was me, absolutely stinking, wheeling this box and eating bits of scabby old sandwich."
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2023
I was the kid who whose body was covered with eczema - raw, red, oozing and scabby.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2016
Beyond stored scabby remnants, smallpox may still exist in suspended animation within buried corpses or mummified human remains.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2014
It was warm and humid, and the only person around was a young man facing the other way He was sitting on an old, scabby bench.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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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