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
  • The Previa tracks determinedly down the road, its path unaltered by scabrous pavement or truck ruts.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 28 Nov. 2022
  • This dirty Pommie duo make scabrous gold on UK Grim, their 12th studio album.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 12 Dec. 2023
  • 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, 20 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • That’s an answer NOFX’s fans have come to expect from the front man known for his scabrous humor and irreverent lyrics.
    — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The band were already distinguishing themselves by wedging huge, chunky-salsa riffs underneath the scabrous noise of the EP.
    — Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • For his second solo outing, the Lower East Side’s most scabrous bard decamped to a London studio.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 22 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Brined for 24 hours, the halal chicken is enveloped in a rub whose 15 or so ingredients transform the skin into something scabrous, charred and unnerving.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Underground rappers like Denzel Curry, Ghostemane and Scarlxrd have embraced their bloodletting lyrics and scabrous noise.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the midst of all this, Orcutt, once of scabrous ’90s noise legends Harry Pussy, has made a sequel to the instrumental solo album that gave birth to the BOGQ, 2022’s Music For Four Guitars.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 1 June 2026
  • Their debut album, Bergtatt (1995), released when singer Kristoffer Garm Rygg was 18, inspired a whole universe of nature-drunk folk metal; meanwhile, Nattens Madrigal (1997) is a prime example of the most scabrous and distortion-encrusted recesses of black metal.
    — Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 8 Jan. 2026

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