2
: rough to the touch: such as
a
: having small raised dots, scales, or points
a scabrous leaf
b
: covered with raised, roughened, or unwholesome patches
scabrous paint
scabrous skin
scabrously
adverb
scabrousness
noun
Examples of scabrous in a Sentence
a movie with scabrous humor
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Brined for 24 hours, the halal chicken is enveloped in a rub whose 15 or so ingredients transform the skin into something scabrous, charred and unnerving.
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Tim Carman, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
Nothing about this frequently brilliant but wildly contorted film is easy, neither working through the knotted narrative, nor trying to find a clear moral throughline amidst all the snide and scabrous nihilism.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023
His scabrous skewering of late-night weekend comedy proved more hypnotic — and funny — than anything on late-night weekend comedy.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023
What Slattery conjures instead, for some reason, is a continual sourness and decay, which gets into every crevice of the action; Jay, who works at a subs franchise, saves money by buying out-of-date cheese and meat, scabrous with green mold.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
Kip’s takedowns of the pay-to-play fame seekers who cavort about the Whisky a Go Go’s stage on weekday nights to half-empty rooms with glitter cannons and paisley scarves, are scabrous enough to give the likes of Lester Bangs and Kickboy Face pause.
—Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
Surfaces as varied as yoga mats and iPhone touch screens are carefully calibrated for our touch, designed to be neither too slick nor too scabrous.
—Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023
Other rewardingly memorable voices belong to Maria Bilbao as Sweeney’s daughter, Johanna, Ruthie Ann Miles as the pitiable Beggar Woman and John Rapson as the scabrous Beadle Bamford.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
Deadened nerves and trauma have rendered the skin scabrous and shiny as can be seen on the patient’s forearms.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2011
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Tim Carman, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
Nothing about this frequently brilliant but wildly contorted film is easy, neither working through the knotted narrative, nor trying to find a clear moral throughline amidst all the snide and scabrous nihilism.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023
His scabrous skewering of late-night weekend comedy proved more hypnotic — and funny — than anything on late-night weekend comedy.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023
What Slattery conjures instead, for some reason, is a continual sourness and decay, which gets into every crevice of the action; Jay, who works at a subs franchise, saves money by buying out-of-date cheese and meat, scabrous with green mold.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
Kip’s takedowns of the pay-to-play fame seekers who cavort about the Whisky a Go Go’s stage on weekday nights to half-empty rooms with glitter cannons and paisley scarves, are scabrous enough to give the likes of Lester Bangs and Kickboy Face pause.
—Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
Surfaces as varied as yoga mats and iPhone touch screens are carefully calibrated for our touch, designed to be neither too slick nor too scabrous.
—Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023
Other rewardingly memorable voices belong to Maria Bilbao as Sweeney’s daughter, Johanna, Ruthie Ann Miles as the pitiable Beggar Woman and John Rapson as the scabrous Beadle Bamford.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
Deadened nerves and trauma have rendered the skin scabrous and shiny as can be seen on the patient’s forearms.
—Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2011
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