scabby
Example Sentences
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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
Shoggoths are hideous to look at — pale, bulbous, covered in scabby, asymmetric eyes — and deadly to encounter, with concentric rows of gnarled teeth that turn trespassers into tartare.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2020
Scratching your bow and scratching your scabby elbows!
From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019
It also stains my scabby skin a ghastly gray-green.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
