scabrous
adjective
having a rough surface because of minute points or projections.
scabrously
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a word derived from
scabrous.
Example Sentences
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Francis McDormand plays Mildred, the grieving — yet scabrously funny — mother of a murdered teenage girl who has installed a series of billboards accusing her town’s police chief of inaction.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2017
Will fame dull the edge of their scabrously funny show about the low life on the Lower East Side?
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2015
After a prologue, “Wall” unfolds in scabrously poetic, honest, linear manner, its fictional archetypes intersecting in hilarious and disturbing ways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2015
After the Tour, the Life of Samuel Johnson may appeal and there is Boswell's scabrously candid collection of intimate journals for further investigation.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2014
From the moment he hugged you hello, he was himself: scabrously funny, theatrically kvetchy, needy and paranoid and observant and discerning—in short, totally crazy, but also crazy good company.
From Slate ● May 9, 2012
