How to Use scabrous in a Sentence

scabrous

adjective

• 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
• On the scabrous asphalt around our Michigan home base, the T-5R would likely have all the ride comfort of a steel canoe running shallow rapids.
  — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 18 May 2020
• For his second solo outing, the Lower East Side’s most scabrous bard decamped to a London studio.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 22 Apr. 2022
• The Previa tracks determinedly down the road, its path unaltered by scabrous pavement or truck ruts.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 28 Nov. 2022
• Along the way, no small pleasure is to be had from the amusing, sometimes scabrous, satirical portraiture of illustrious figures.
  — Nicholas Dames, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2017
• 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, 7 Apr. 2020
• 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
• Then again, Becker’s lyrics were as scabrous and sarcastic as Warren Zevon’s, which is the right kind of tonic for a band who painstakingly assembled the drum track for Gaucho’s title tune out of 46 separate takes.
  — Dan Weiss, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Underground rappers like Denzel Curry, Ghostemane and Scarlxrd have embraced their bloodletting lyrics and scabrous noise.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2019
• 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and decay, which gets into every crevice of the action; Jay, who works at a subs franchise, saves money by buying out-of-date cheese and meat, scabrous with green mold.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
• 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
• Pop culture commentators belatedly began to applaud Armstrong's scabrous depiction of the mega-rich and the comedic potential of the characters, including Tom and Greg.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2021
• During that earlier period of tech wealth accumulation known as the dotcom era, the Baffler was a reliable source of scabrous insight into the collective insanity of the times.
  — Stephen Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2018
• Media coverage of the new new left has tended to view predominantly white cultural types — scabrous podcast hosts, brittle little magazines — as its vanguard.
  — Frank Guan, Daily Intelligencer, 5 Nov. 2017
• Instead of another routine foray into casual adultery as a metric of modern morality, this should have been a scabrous satire on cinema’s decline and hypocrisy’s ascendance.
  — Armond White, National Review, 4 Feb. 2022
• Sometimes scabrous and always irreverent, his cartoons swipe gleefully at disability and other sensitive topics, piercing the movie’s one-day-at-a-time orthodoxy.
  — Gus Van Sant, New York Times, 11 July 2018
• Excremental flourishes notwithstanding, that gloriously scabrous picture also kick-started the careers of its director and stars, most of whom are back to illustrate the consequences of a misspent youth.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
• Everyone from presidents and county officials to celebrities and Greek gods was celebrated or excoriated with scabrous glee.
  — Donald Frazier, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024