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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In that scabrously funny show, hostility bubbled beneath the jokes, just as affection bubbled beneath the meanest digs.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2021
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
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
"Pierre writes to his strengths," Roger Hutchinson noted in the Scotsman, "namely, a vital narrative voice, inventive, freewheeling and scabrously funny."
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2010
