carbuncular
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of carbuncular
Example Sentences
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"They seek the secret of the Grail," gasps carbuncular nobleman Bertrand, as swarms of rhubarbing crusaders prepare to storm his ramparts.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2013
There are too many "young men carbuncular" within its limits, deceiving themselves with "systematic lies," failing to acknowledge "the agony and horror of modern life."
From Time Magazine Archive
Just as Karl Marx left his carbuncular anger to his heirs, so Freud's brilliant but obstinate, vain and hypersensitive character seems to have shaped the psychoanalytic movement.
From Time Magazine Archive
Internal carbuncular inflammations no longer took place, and hemorrhages became phenomena, no more essential in this than they are in any other febrile disorders.
From The Black Death The Dancing Mania by B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington
Consequently, while in Campania the burning of the earth makes ashes, in Tuscany the combustion of the stone makes carbuncular sand.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
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