| Back | scabrous \SKAB-ruhs\ |
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| Front | adjective 1. Full of difficulties. 2. Having a rough surface because of minute points or projections. 3. Indecent or scandalous; risqué; obscene: scabrous books. [Scabrous is related to the common word scab. Both terms come from the Latin word scaber meaning "rough."] The old divorce case had been revived by a journalist. It was moderately scabrous. It had been with the wife of a still-prominent Tory politician. - C. P. Snow, In Their Wisdom, 2000 He had amused her with the exacting nature of his questions, and his demands that she should include even the most scabrous details in her accounts. - Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Madeline is Sleeping, 2005 |
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