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scabrous

adjective as in rough

adjective as in improper

adjective as in difficult

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Example Sentences

From Romantic squish to scabrous satirist to rebel wrangler to, finally, Ambassador of Goodwill.

Lucretius is scabrous and rough in these; he seeks them: as some do Chaucerisms with us, which were better expunged and banished.

The spores are rounded, and rough (scabrous) on the surface.

Whereupon Khalid, who was then in the first of his teens, takes a big scabrous rock and sends it flying against that door.

Then we incontinently proceed to stone him to death with scabrous adjectives!

Blades long, dark green, succulent and scabrous: ridges numerous and flat above, but distinct (Fig. 9).

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On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scabrous, such as: blotchy, coarse, encrusted, lepidote, notched, and scabby.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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