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ulcerous

[uhl-ser-uhs] / ˈʌl sər əs /
ADJECTIVE
ulcerative
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An ulcerous infection on her thigh prevented her from working last year, but since January she has been selling beauty products door to door.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2018

“Wiley’s paintings are created by teams of assistants in China,” the critic Ben Davis observed in an ulcerous review at BlouinArtinfo.com in 2012.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2015

The FBI tapes revealed that De Carlo had as many ulcerous problems in running his mob as any businessman would have.

From Time Magazine Archive

From Portland to Morehead City, N.C., fishermen have been hauling up lobsters and crabs with gaping holes in their shells and fish with rotted fins and ulcerous lesions.

From Time Magazine Archive

He looked into its surface and it was gray and ulcerous.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck



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