scabby
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Something is genuinely off about the goings-on at the conference, from strange deaths and elevators that suddenly aren’t elevators, to a rash of scabby infections afflicting guests and the discovery of a subterranean tunnel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024
"My daughter has a rash across her leg, which is scabby and itchy, and my eldest has anxiety and worries constantly about the mould."
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2024
I caught a glimpse of ruined bungalows and scabby pastures, and at a hill-like dump, a pack of dogs tearing at garbage.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2020
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
We put a dollop on his ring-finger stump, too, since it was still a little scabby.
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 Caine, Hall, Sir
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