| 单词 | scabrous |
| 释义 | scabrous (once / 53725 pages) adj The word scabrous can describe anything that's bumpy and coarse, like your pet iguana or the rough stucco walls in your parents' house. The adjective scabrous is also used to describe things that are considered lewd or obscene, like a scabrous newspaper cartoon that manages to offend everyone who sees it. The Latin root, scaber, means "rough and scaly," and is closely related to scabere, "to scrape." WORD FAMILYscabrous: scabrously USAGE EXAMPLESHis photographs, collages and sculptures often contained scabrous images of sex and hard drugs, or featured his own body fluids. Wall Street Journal(Oct 12, 2016) Until recently, he played bass in Gag, a winkingly scabrous hardcore band that’s lately influenced the genre significantly. The Guardian(Oct 07, 2016) Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs is a scabrous, often hilarious, account of the brief and noisy progress of the Sex Pistols. The Guardian(Sep 27, 2016) 1adj rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf Syn lepidote, leprose, scaly, scurfy rough, unsmooth having or caused by an irregular surface 2adj dealing with salacious or indecent material a scabrous novel Syn dirty (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency |
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