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It maintained some of the scabrousness of its earlier albums, and smeared big-tent pop ambition atop it: “The Wall” for the “TRL” era.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2022

The ratty mascots, ranging from human-size to two or three times that height, and afflicted with varying degrees of scabrousness, have become synonymous across the country with public displays of union outrage.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2019

As so often in British productions of Scandinavian drama, scabrousness begins to look like tasteful distress.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2010

Happily acknowledging a "certain amount of scabrousness," Andersen says they are trying to develop the "hybrid of a comic point of view and journalistic reportage."

From Time Magazine Archive