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Recent Examples of scabrous
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.
—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
Malcolm is the pressure-release valve in Baumbach's scabrous follow-up to 2005's The Squid and the Whale, and one of many points of contention between Margot and Pauline.
—Erik Adams, EW.com, 18 July 2023
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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.
—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
Malcolm is the pressure-release valve in Baumbach's scabrous follow-up to 2005's The Squid and the Whale, and one of many points of contention between Margot and Pauline.
—Erik Adams, EW.com, 18 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scabrous
Adjective
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In 1917, the Titles Deprivation Act was passed to deal with troublesome royal cousins who sided with Germany in the First World War.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
25 Oct. 2025
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Palmer has been the difference-maker since joining from Manchester City in 2023 but is currently sidelined with a troublesome groin injury that is expected to keep him out for another five weeks.—
Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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Why an audience member would want to return, though, would be an even more vexing mystery than whatever happened to Riley Brennan.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Oct. 2025
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Any unexplained death leaves room for competing narratives, but Scott’s death involved a particularly vexing set of ambiguities.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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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
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The next morning, there were two vexatious problems.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
27 July 2025
Adjective
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Month over month, that would be the same stubborn pace that has persisted for more than two years.—
Steve Kopack,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
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Results show that microbial iron mining can immobilize toxic metals and convert stubborn pollutants into less harmful compounds.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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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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That is especially worrisome for the kinds of felony charges faced by Rozier, Billups and Jones, who, if convicted, could face maximum prison sentences of decades.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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Instead, the imaging showed worrisome spots on his liver.—
Erika Edwards,
NBC news,
23 Oct. 2025
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When Singh’s successor decided to make the fort taller, its shadow fell on the hermit’s home, consequently bringing destruction to the complex and surrounding towns.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
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The culmination of three painstaking years of development and over 40,000 hours of work, this striking black-and-white automotive tribute is touted as the most complex, most technically ambitious Phantom Private Collection model ever.—
Howard Walker,
Robb Report,
22 Oct. 2025
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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 30 Oct. 2025.
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