scabby
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Their life together is tinged with the absence of Lily’s mother, who only occasionally appears, thin-armed and scabby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
"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
Shoggoths are hideous to look at — pale, bulbous, covered in scabby, asymmetric eyes — and deadly to encounter, with concentric rows of gnarled teeth that turn trespassers into tartare.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2020
Beyond stored scabby remnants, smallpox may still exist in suspended animation within buried corpses or mummified human remains.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2014
The bonobo looked alarmed, so I held his hand and stroked his scabby forehead.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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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