adjective
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pathol having an area of the skin covered with scabs
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obsolete pathol having scabies
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informal despicable
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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
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
Beyond stored scabby remnants, smallpox may still exist in suspended animation within buried corpses or mummified human remains.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2014
They turned their eyes upward again, for the fight was coming lower, and the firelight glaring up showed a swift-rushing swirl of black silk, pale limbs, green pine needles, gray-brown scabby leather.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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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