pustulous

American  

[puhs-chuh-luhs] / ˈpʌs tʃə ləs /

adjective

1. pustular.

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Etymology

Origin of pustulous

First recorded in 1535–45; pustule + -ous

Example Sentences

Musk is the richest man in the world and yet comports himself online like a pustulous incel on a Mountain Dew bender.

From Slate

It’s also much later than other accounts of epidemics, such as pustulous rashes from fourth century China and the Antonine Plague in Rome in 165 C.E., which have been attributed to smallpox by historians.

From Science Magazine

This suppression of the eruption was followed by a host of diseases: Liability to catching cold; frequent catarrh; rheumatic complaints; toothache; attacks of hemicrania, with vomiting; continual heartburn; h�morrhoidal complaints, at times tumors, at times fluent; excessive emaciation; afterwards a pustulous eruption over the whole body; painful swelling of the joints, arthritic nodosities in different places; a copper-colored eruption in the face, especially on and about the nose, which made me look like a confirmed drunkard, etc., etc.

From Project Gutenberg

Empyesis, em-pi-ē′sis, n. pustulous eruption.

From Project Gutenberg

From a very careful search, I have not been able to find any clump of these bushes of any considerable size that was entirely free from pustulous stems.

From Project Gutenberg