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
Other buildings wear their age in their scabby, rain-damaged paint; Ishana was the sleek, prosperous beast in the pack.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2020
Scratching your bow and scratching your scabby elbows!
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
After that he could organize lessons under the courtyard’s scabby mango, teaching literacy to any guard or fellow prisoner who felt like improving himself on a given day.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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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