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View definitions for scab

scab

noun as in fink

noun as in flake

noun as in mange

noun as in scar

verb as in flake

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Example Sentences

He ridiculed people who keep bringing up the audio leak scandal, proclaiming that he has moved forward while they “see the scab” from the wound it caused and “continue to scratch and scratch and scratch.”

This is why United Auto Workers endorsed the Democratic ticket, with the president Shawn Fain calling Trump a "scab."

From Salon

In my opinion, day 1 was the most effective at thwarting the Trump-Vance playbook as it featured union leaders like UAW president Sean Fain, who attacked Trump as a “scab,” and Democratic politicians like AOC and Senator Warnock, who brilliantly folded an economic populist message into the larger “freedom” narrative about gender and minority rights and peace for Israelis and Palestinians.

From Salon

The rash, which can be extremely itchy or painful, changes and goes through different stages before finally forming a scab, which later falls off.

From BBC

No fewer than seven union leaders graced the stage over the course of the evening, most notably United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, who had the crowd on its feet as he hammered Trump as a “scab”—a word that wasn’t even part of the Democratic lexicon at the previous convention but has since transformed into the ultimate liberal insult.

From Slate

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

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