excrescence

Example Sentences

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“Do you take this excrescence to be your husband?”

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2020

To press a button and see your own excrescence appear in the preordained format, minted, can feel like a kind of magic.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2020

Things didn't improve from there, with The Observer calling it "shameless excrescence" in 2017.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2018

Its head is a sculptural confection of broken cycles, its rear a writhing excrescence of black rubber loops.

From Economist • Oct. 26, 2017

O'Byrn told himself fiercely that it could not be, that earth must long since have wearied of such an excrescence and cast it forth to annihilation.

From The Lash by Lyman, Olin L.