A scabrous novel. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : scabrous books. From Dictionary.com.
On a side note, never have I seen so many reviews spontaneously choose to use the word "scabrous" at once. link. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
But here, "scabrous" as the subject might be, the treatment is scrupulously. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
Despite the subject and the title, there is nothing in the least "scabrous" in it. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
"scabrous" part of the matter by the author of Diderot's other books. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
Around one glimmered scabrous blood-red force-swirls. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic of Recluce]
With scabrous song Scotland is surely among the Top Ten. From Wordnik.com. [Them and Us] Reference
Swan scanned the scabrous encampment west of the fortress. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams of Steel]
Behind him, standing atop the dented and scabrous garbage cans, Dumont. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
Mark E Smith of The Fall, whose new LP adds jungle to its scabrous sound. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews] Reference
More had joined them, their scabrous heads light among the dark branches. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
These from the scabrous canvas of fulgent wastrels and transcendental madmen. From Wordnik.com. [Vacuum City] Reference
"A scabrous piece of racial pornography masquerading as serious scholarship.". From Wordnik.com. [Violence, Not Violins] Reference
Giants, rats, rabbits, he could bear-but not the scabrous solitudes of Deadways. From Wordnik.com. [Starship]
"A scabrous lot of reporters talking to anybody they could catch, or to each other.". From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
I'd be happy to donate some pointed cowboy boots for particularly scabrous line-ups. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Bronstein: If the Shoe Flies: Why Flinging Footwear is the Perfect Solution] Reference
Carol glanced from the scabrous object to Vida, and realized that she was not joking. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
'I can see that,' Price said, and he and Wallace went into peals of scabrous laughter. From Wordnik.com. [A Rude Awakening]
They sat cross-legged in the dimly luminous cone, their backs the scabrous concrete wall. From Wordnik.com. [In Alien Hands]
A couple of boys on a scabrous and undernourished donkey passed us at a brisk trot, going uphill. From Wordnik.com. [O Jerusalem]
He, in fact, may be the antidote to her rise, dogging her with his smile and his scabrous asides. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Wolff: Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston: How They Took America] Reference
He raised a scabrous hand, and a file of servants came forward car'rying platters of hot, aromatic food. From Wordnik.com. [Emperor of Ansalon]
It's still ranked No. 5 on Amazon. com's nonfiction list-well ahead of Ann Coulter's scabrous "Treason.". From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: We're Baaaa-Aack] Reference
This is the bem of alien race, with X-ray eyes and scabrous face, that chased the daughter, lush and young. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorn Trade]
He was curled up on the ground under a scabrous old van, as limp as the clothing and totally oblivious to us. From Wordnik.com. [Leave a Message for Willie]
You may not like the scabrous place where pop culture is today, but you can't pretend that context doesn't exist. From Wordnik.com. [Marty Kaplan: Lord of the Gingers] Reference
The statue has weathered since the last time I was in Dixon IL, and the gipper is starting to look a bit scabrous. From Wordnik.com. [Ian is still taking a] Reference
Ms. Alexander's poems cover a range of subjects and tones, from public to private, suave to scabrous, playful to political. From Wordnik.com. [Bards at the Inaugural Gates] Reference
Mouthing the ritual of healing, he called upon his Dark Queen, pleading with Takhisis for the power to heal the scabrous wounds. From Wordnik.com. [Emperor of Ansalon]
The result is a one-act, two-hour stunt that is indulgent, scabrous and endless; it is also ingenious, subtle and unforgettable. From Wordnik.com. [Hamburg's Scabrous and Ingenious Hamlet] Reference
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