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Recent Examples of scabrous
Pope Francis often made scabrous criticisms of younger, more tradition-minded priests and faithful.
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The Editors,
National Review,
8 May 2025
Lamar mirrors Nas’s slow build to a scabrous eruption, followed by exhaustion.
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Jon Caramanica,
New York Times,
25 Nov. 2024
Is this Scott redoing American Gangster as a grand Italian tragedy, or scabrous comedy about a family undone by their ineptitude and excess?
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Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
20 Nov. 2024
Jacobs wrote the script with these three actors in mind, which was perhaps shocking news to each of them, who play scabrous women who locate the worst characteristics of each other and then blow them up into throwdown fights.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
18 Sep. 2024
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The Editors,
National Review,
8 May 2025
Lamar mirrors Nas’s slow build to a scabrous eruption, followed by exhaustion.
—
Jon Caramanica,
New York Times,
25 Nov. 2024
Is this Scott redoing American Gangster as a grand Italian tragedy, or scabrous comedy about a family undone by their ineptitude and excess?
—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
20 Nov. 2024
Jacobs wrote the script with these three actors in mind, which was perhaps shocking news to each of them, who play scabrous women who locate the worst characteristics of each other and then blow them up into throwdown fights.
—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
18 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scabrous
Adjective
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One of the troublesome sounds for writers was /w/.
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Above-ground tree roots can be just as troublesome and require special attention.
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The annual Group of 7 summit for decades has been an occasion for the heads of state of Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan and the United States to meet as friends and try to hash out a collective approach to the vexing problems of the day.
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Cardholders struggle with inflation, interest rates Cardholders are still struggling with a vexing combination of elevated inflation and interest rates.
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On one side is challenger Holly Cook, who has filed for bankruptcy twice, been held in contempt of court on nine counts, been pursued by multiple collections agencies and once was labeled a vexatious litigant, court records showed.
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The federal vexatious litigator statute allows the court to impose sanctions on a case by case basis for vexatious conduct.
Adjective
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Dealing with stubborn dark spots?
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But when the adults decide to cancel Christmas and the magical star fades away, a stubborn little bird named Pikkuli sets off on a winter adventure with friends to find the Starlight Reindeer and bring back the light.
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Then there were the ghoulish figures of revolutionary adventurers, the Mexican painter with two pistols in his belt, the men who were carving themselves careers out of these troublous times.
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Meningitis can lead to a host of worrisome symptoms that range in seriousness depending on what's causing the infection and inflammation.
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Why is an addiction to ultraprocessed foods worrisome?
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Storms involve complex flows originating over a wide region and evolving in complicated ways.
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Police say the violence on Sydney’s streets is being orchestrated from abroad – and teenagers are being lured into the complex web of gang warfare with the promise of fast cash.
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This includes courses such as the notoriously recondite organic chemistry as well as biology, general chemistry, and physics.
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Social Security’s internal workings are so recondite and poorly understood by average voters that numerous possible ways of imposing benefit cuts or otherwise harming the program are hiding in plain sight.
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“Scabrous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scabrous. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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