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Recent Examples of scabrous
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?
—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
At nearly three hours, the anthology film was divisive: Some hailed its scabrous take on human nature as brilliant, and others derided it as bloated.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 21 May 2024
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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?
—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
At nearly three hours, the anthology film was divisive: Some hailed its scabrous take on human nature as brilliant, and others derided it as bloated.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 21 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scabrous
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The government said there were between 200 and 500 troublesome and inaccurate posts — including up to 30 that have received more than 100,000 views — since Sunday's army operation.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
25 Feb. 2026
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Sources close to the player, speaking on the condition of anonymity to protect professional relationships, explained that the defender initially had a dead leg after a blow to the thigh muscle above his troublesome right knee last week.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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That total is just one shy of the number of homicides recorded by this time in 2025, a year in which officials noted a vexing increase in homicides despite a substantial decline in other crime.—
Steven Martinez,
jsonline.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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What is Congress doing to create a solution to this vexing, complex problem?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The federal vexatious litigator statute allows the court to impose sanctions on a case by case basis for vexatious conduct.—
Jack Greiner,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
18 Feb. 2026
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Decades later, he was declared a vexatious litigant by the High Court, Federal Court and Queensland Supreme Court, a label that barred him from filing any more claims.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Here are a few extra tips to get an even deeper clean on your window and door tracks, or how to tackle stubborn mold spots that won't go away.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
24 Feb. 2026
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From eliminating multi-hour furnace cycles in glass manufacturing to reengineering how poorly soluble drugs dissolve in the body, Leonard Siebert is applying materials science to two of engineering’s most stubborn bottlenecks.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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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.—
John Dos Passos,
National Review,
28 Sep. 2020
Adjective
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Wipeouts become funny rather than worrisome, in other words.—
Moira McCarthy,
Boston Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
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And loan delinquencies, especially for lower-income Americans, are starting to get worrisome.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The new accounts have other complications, including that even the smallest contributions could require a highly complex federal gift tax form.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Feb. 2026
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They are filled with fluid, continually rebuild themselves, and actively respond to a complex mix of chemical signals and mechanical forces.—
Clare Watson,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Feb. 2026
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This includes courses such as the notoriously recondite organic chemistry as well as biology, general chemistry, and physics.—
Richard Menger MD MPA,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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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.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Nov. 2024
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“Scabrous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scabrous. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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