scabrous

Example Sentences

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“The Jung Generation” focuses on William Edward Hickman, “a handsome, curly-haired boy who looked more like a college sophomore than a murderer,” who came to Los Angeles and committed “the most scabrous crime of 1927.”

From Los Angeles Times

The school might be improved by the departure of the student whose idea of intellect in the service of social justice was to shout sexual boastings and scabrous insults.

From Washington Post

He’s almost made it: His band has been described as “scabrous, intermittently witty, post-skronk propulsion.”

From New York Times

The canvas had little of what John Elderfield called “the gritty buildup and scabrous intermingling of paint, charcoal and granular particles” that characterize de Kooning’s earlier paintings.

From Washington Post

He signs his poems — and, later, his scabrous articles in the Parisian press — Lucien de Rubempré, using his highborn mother’s maiden name.

From New York Times