scabby
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Something is genuinely off about the goings-on at the conference, from strange deaths and elevators that suddenly aren’t elevators, to a rash of scabby infections afflicting guests and the discovery of a subterranean tunnel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024
"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 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
I was the kid who whose body was covered with eczema - raw, red, oozing and scabby.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2016
The land dried up and the grasses headed out miserably a few inches high and great bare scabby places appeared in the valley.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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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