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In it, a government scientist discovers that a scaly creature worshiped by island villagers as a sea god has grown to a monstrosity that dwarfs tall buildings.

From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2026

McManus suggested that people’s love for their furry, feathery or scaly companions transcends party lines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

It was not clear whether the scaly hotel gatecrasher was a saltwater crocodile or its less dangerous freshwater cousin.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

Determined to save her mother, Mae answers a supernatural summons and finds herself entering a cave where the flowers bloom under the bulging eyes of a dragon—a scaly, crimson, undulating monster straight from Chinese folklore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

One of them was leaping up and down; the other, an old scaly grandfather of the sewers, stood up, with his pink hands against the bars, and fiercely snuffed the air.

From "1984" by George Orwell

But Sunny and Ned are a bit scalier that your typical lifelong mates — they are shingleback lizards that live at Melbourne Museum in Australia.

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2022

In the midst there was a wonderful scalier or winding-stair, the entry whereof was without the house, in a vault or arch six fathom broad.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux

If you were to let it have nothing to eat but mice and birds it might grow larger and fiercer, and scalier and tailier, and get wings and turn into the beginning of dragons.

From The Book of Dragons by H. Granville Fell

Anson, thinner and scalier and more snakelike than ever, was dealing a greasy, dirty deck of cards, his opponent being the square-shaped, black-visaged Moze.

From The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey

They brought up the dirtiest, scaliest lookin' man in the guard-house, and said that was Si Klegg, and that he resembled me so much that they wuz sure he wuz my son.

From Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro by John McElroy

And for perhaps a minute there was one of the scaliest silences I've ever run up against.

From My Man Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

She did not know that this Congo River was the home of the Crocodile, the biggest, fiercest, scaliest, hungriest Crocodile in all Africa.

From The Curious Book of Birds by E. Boyd (Elmer Boyd) Smith

For of all the scaly localities I have struck this seems to me the scaliest.

From Psmith, Journalist by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

The train of cars in which I was to trust my wallerable life, was the scaliest, rickytiest lookin lot of consarns that I ever saw on wheels afore.

From The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 2: War by Artemus Ward