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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His “Triangle of Sadness,” is a long, windy, beautifully composed, scabrously funny takedown of Western capitalist excess in its many forms: billionaires, war profiteers, fashion models, social-media influencers and other targets of sometimes eye-roll-inducing obviousness.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2022
“Succession,” whose scabrously funny third season begins Sunday, is superficially in the same genre as “Dynasty,” “Dallas” and other bygone soaps about the unhappy superrich.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2021
Here, period authenticity clashes happily with occasional creative anachronisms to present audiences with a portrait of power as sobering as it is scabrously conniving.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2018
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
