Definition of scabrous in English:

scabrous

adjective ˈskeɪbrəsˈskabrəsˈskæbrəs

1Rough and covered with, or as if with, scabs.
表面粗糙的；多痂的
his face was scabrous and lumpy
Example sentencesExamples
- As he ran up the flight of stairs, a superior smile twisted his scabrous face.
- After encounters with ‘a scabrous German shepherd’ and ‘two blood-eyed mastiffs’, he walks past two ‘copulating dogs’ on his way to talk to Maximo, another shark-man.
- The gargoyles are functionless and the half-timbered effect of the East wing, which is a later addition and houses a billiard room, is entirely bogus, the timbers being painted on to a surface of scabrous cement.
- Given the sorry state of the pets for sale in the weekend markets and the indifference of the local population, farangs as well as Thais, to scabrous stray animals this dream was put on hold.
- Tears scald his scabrous cheeks, and he can hardly laugh - even the sardonic bark he reserves for all humanity - without torturing his jaw.
- The landing was home to a pair of scabrous aging brutes, a wolf dog (I suspect) and a forlorn Great Dane.
- An audible hissing pop accompanied the loosening of the last bolt, and at the sight of my leprous fore-arms and the great plates of scabrous horn which have overgrown my chest, the roust-abouts screamed like a pair of God-damned fat ladies.
- Most of the stripped down monologue consists of a topless Dee Dee baring his soul and his scabrous white chest, which starkly contrasts against the black backdrop.
- After an unnerving 45-minute ride on scabrous rural roads (one pothole too many and my rented '80s Honda 50 cc would have gone flying), I came across a tiny town.
- The troll's scabrous face fell, and he stopped abruptly.
- Mengele, she believes, chose her for this favoured project because, although sick and lousy, her flesh was remarkably unmarked - Mengele had an aversion to scarred or scabrous skin.
- What had once been a set of four horrible, deep pits in her hand - two on her palm and two on the back - had turned into a scabrous mass of clotted blood.
- His face was scabrous and lumpy, his flesh a sickly shade toward green.
- Dropping the rag over the side of the bedpost, she turned and let the scabrous shard fall into a small bowl on the dresser; it greeted a similarly discordant family with a slight tink of angular metallic collision.
Synonyms
dry, flaky, flaking, peeling, scurfy, rough, mangy, scabious
1. 1.1 Unpleasant; unattractive.
  令人不快的；不吸引人的
  a scabrous hovel
  Example sentencesExamples
  Their daughter Sally was bright and personable but her liberal husband, Michael, represented all that Archie hated, and the scabrous arguments between the two formed the central conflict from which the comedy flowed.
  Lurching and moaning like the undead, their final EP is scabrous and abhorrent listening.
  I'll admit that there's a certain amount of gawp-in-horror entertainment to be had from seeing the scabrous insides of sundry slackers' houses - but the weekly ‘look at the BUGS that were in your carpet!’
  Synonyms
  unpleasant, disagreeable, nasty, distasteful, offensive, objectionable, unsavoury, unpalatable, dislikeable, off-putting, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, revolting, repulsive, repellent, repugnant, disgusting, odious, vile, foul, abhorrent, loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, insufferable, intolerable, unacceptable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, poisonous, noxious, obscene, base, hideous
2Indecent; salacious.
下流的；猥亵的
scabrous details included being regularly seen with a mistress
下流细节包括常被看见与一情妇厮混。
Example sentencesExamples
- This time out I'm happy to report (only because I don't have to live with the guy) that he's as scabrous and brutal as all his little goat-children could've hoped.
- It's lurid, scabrous, scatological, banal and brilliant.
- Anti-government cartoons in the 1790s often included the most scabrous, even treasonable, representations of King George III.
- He, by stark contrast, was scabrous and confessional, sexy, vernacular, and totally unpredictable.
- They are intentionally, indeed overinsistently, scabrous; and they are conscientiously repetitious in their linear, timeless design.
- In the end, it proves disastrous - disastrous for complexity, analysis, richness, variegation - for the novel to conjure its vision of Texas from a scabrous adolescent narrator.
- Nobody wants to see 16 in a movie house anymore, unless it's something scabrous or has a lot of sex in it or something like that…
- Usually described as a ballad opera - which makes it sound safe - it is a play with songs, the songs in question being popular pieces of the day, fitted with new lyrics that formed scabrous takes on the original words.
- Oh, one more thing, please ignore the snide remark some scabrous graffito vandal appended to the end of the article.
- Not all the ‘women whom he chose to love’ shared this lady's antipathy, as we learn from the gallant, erotic, or downright scabrous poems they occasioned.
- When so much of TV and film is scabrous, parents rightly want to control what their youngsters see and, in response to this need, the world of Kid Vid has emerged.
- ‘You have to acknowledge that the Scots tradition is very adept at the scabrous song,’ says the singer.
- Now it's pig easy to go on the Internet and just grab the planet's most scabrous excesses - absolute debauchery - you lay it out there with the complete sterile access of a surgeon or a medical test.
Synonyms
pornographic, indecent, salacious, smutty, x-rated, lewd, rude, dirty, filthy, vulgar, foul, coarse, crude, gross, vile, nasty, disgusting, offensive, shameless, immoral, improper, immodest, impure, indecorous, indelicate, unwholesome, off colour, lubricious, risqué, ribald, bawdy, suggestive, titillating, racy, erotic, carnal, sensual, sexy, lascivious, lecherous, licentious, libidinous, goatish, degenerate, depraved, amoral, debauched, dissolute, prurient

Derivatives

scabrously

adverb

He wrote caustically about Jews publicly and scabrously privately.
Example sentencesExamples
- Initially his trauma in the trenches has left him literally speechless, but when Rivers gets him to talk, Billy turns out to be scabrously angry and anxious to return to the front.

scabrousness

nounˈskabrəsnəsˈskeɪbrəsnəsˈskæbrəsnəs

Origin

Late 16th century (first used to describe an author's style as 'harsh, unmusical, unpolished'): from French scabreux or late Latin scabrosus, from Latin scaber 'rough'.

Definition of scabrous in US English:

scabrous

adjectiveˈskæbrəsˈskabrəs

1Rough and covered with, or as if with, scabs.
表面粗糙的；多痂的
Example sentencesExamples
- Tears scald his scabrous cheeks, and he can hardly laugh - even the sardonic bark he reserves for all humanity - without torturing his jaw.
- After encounters with ‘a scabrous German shepherd’ and ‘two blood-eyed mastiffs’, he walks past two ‘copulating dogs’ on his way to talk to Maximo, another shark-man.
- Mengele, she believes, chose her for this favoured project because, although sick and lousy, her flesh was remarkably unmarked - Mengele had an aversion to scarred or scabrous skin.
- The troll's scabrous face fell, and he stopped abruptly.
- Most of the stripped down monologue consists of a topless Dee Dee baring his soul and his scabrous white chest, which starkly contrasts against the black backdrop.
- The gargoyles are functionless and the half-timbered effect of the East wing, which is a later addition and houses a billiard room, is entirely bogus, the timbers being painted on to a surface of scabrous cement.
- Dropping the rag over the side of the bedpost, she turned and let the scabrous shard fall into a small bowl on the dresser; it greeted a similarly discordant family with a slight tink of angular metallic collision.
- As he ran up the flight of stairs, a superior smile twisted his scabrous face.
- An audible hissing pop accompanied the loosening of the last bolt, and at the sight of my leprous fore-arms and the great plates of scabrous horn which have overgrown my chest, the roust-abouts screamed like a pair of God-damned fat ladies.
- Given the sorry state of the pets for sale in the weekend markets and the indifference of the local population, farangs as well as Thais, to scabrous stray animals this dream was put on hold.
- His face was scabrous and lumpy, his flesh a sickly shade toward green.
- After an unnerving 45-minute ride on scabrous rural roads (one pothole too many and my rented '80s Honda 50 cc would have gone flying), I came across a tiny town.
- What had once been a set of four horrible, deep pits in her hand - two on her palm and two on the back - had turned into a scabrous mass of clotted blood.
- The landing was home to a pair of scabrous aging brutes, a wolf dog (I suspect) and a forlorn Great Dane.
Synonyms
dry, flaky, flaking, peeling, scurfy, rough, mangy, scabious
2Indecent; salacious.
下流的；猥亵的
scabrous publications
Example sentencesExamples
- He, by stark contrast, was scabrous and confessional, sexy, vernacular, and totally unpredictable.
- Oh, one more thing, please ignore the snide remark some scabrous graffito vandal appended to the end of the article.
- Usually described as a ballad opera - which makes it sound safe - it is a play with songs, the songs in question being popular pieces of the day, fitted with new lyrics that formed scabrous takes on the original words.
- ‘You have to acknowledge that the Scots tradition is very adept at the scabrous song,’ says the singer.
- They are intentionally, indeed overinsistently, scabrous; and they are conscientiously repetitious in their linear, timeless design.
- This time out I'm happy to report (only because I don't have to live with the guy) that he's as scabrous and brutal as all his little goat-children could've hoped.
- Now it's pig easy to go on the Internet and just grab the planet's most scabrous excesses - absolute debauchery - you lay it out there with the complete sterile access of a surgeon or a medical test.
- When so much of TV and film is scabrous, parents rightly want to control what their youngsters see and, in response to this need, the world of Kid Vid has emerged.
- It's lurid, scabrous, scatological, banal and brilliant.
- Nobody wants to see 16 in a movie house anymore, unless it's something scabrous or has a lot of sex in it or something like that…
- Anti-government cartoons in the 1790s often included the most scabrous, even treasonable, representations of King George III.
- Not all the ‘women whom he chose to love’ shared this lady's antipathy, as we learn from the gallant, erotic, or downright scabrous poems they occasioned.
- In the end, it proves disastrous - disastrous for complexity, analysis, richness, variegation - for the novel to conjure its vision of Texas from a scabrous adolescent narrator.
Synonyms
pornographic, indecent, salacious, smutty, x-rated, lewd, rude, dirty, filthy, vulgar, foul, coarse, crude, gross, vile, nasty, disgusting, offensive, shameless, immoral, improper, immodest, impure, indecorous, indelicate, unwholesome, off colour, lubricious, risqué, ribald, bawdy, suggestive, titillating, racy, erotic, carnal, sensual, sexy, lascivious, lecherous, licentious, libidinous, goatish, degenerate, depraved, amoral, debauched, dissolute, prurient

Origin

Late 16th century (first used to describe an author's style as ‘harsh, unmusical, unpolished’): from French scabreux or late Latin scabrosus, from Latin scaber ‘rough’.

词汇	scabrous
释义	Definition of scabrous in English: scabrous adjective ˈskeɪbrəsˈskabrəsˈskæbrəs 1Rough and covered with, or as if with, scabs. 表面粗糙的；多痂的 his face was scabrous and lumpy Example sentencesExamples As he ran up the flight of stairs, a superior smile twisted his scabrous face. After encounters with ‘a scabrous German shepherd’ and ‘two blood-eyed mastiffs’, he walks past two ‘copulating dogs’ on his way to talk to Maximo, another shark-man. The gargoyles are functionless and the half-timbered effect of the East wing, which is a later addition and houses a billiard room, is entirely bogus, the timbers being painted on to a surface of scabrous cement. Given the sorry state of the pets for sale in the weekend markets and the indifference of the local population, farangs as well as Thais, to scabrous stray animals this dream was put on hold. Tears scald his scabrous cheeks, and he can hardly laugh - even the sardonic bark he reserves for all humanity - without torturing his jaw. The landing was home to a pair of scabrous aging brutes, a wolf dog (I suspect) and a forlorn Great Dane. An audible hissing pop accompanied the loosening of the last bolt, and at the sight of my leprous fore-arms and the great plates of scabrous horn which have overgrown my chest, the roust-abouts screamed like a pair of God-damned fat ladies. Most of the stripped down monologue consists of a topless Dee Dee baring his soul and his scabrous white chest, which starkly contrasts against the black backdrop. After an unnerving 45-minute ride on scabrous rural roads (one pothole too many and my rented '80s Honda 50 cc would have gone flying), I came across a tiny town. The troll's scabrous face fell, and he stopped abruptly. Mengele, she believes, chose her for this favoured project because, although sick and lousy, her flesh was remarkably unmarked - Mengele had an aversion to scarred or scabrous skin. What had once been a set of four horrible, deep pits in her hand - two on her palm and two on the back - had turned into a scabrous mass of clotted blood. His face was scabrous and lumpy, his flesh a sickly shade toward green. Dropping the rag over the side of the bedpost, she turned and let the scabrous shard fall into a small bowl on the dresser; it greeted a similarly discordant family with a slight tink of angular metallic collision. Synonyms dry, flaky, flaking, peeling, scurfy, rough, mangy, scabious 1.1 Unpleasant; unattractive. 令人不快的；不吸引人的 a scabrous hovel Example sentencesExamples Their daughter Sally was bright and personable but her liberal husband, Michael, represented all that Archie hated, and the scabrous arguments between the two formed the central conflict from which the comedy flowed. Lurching and moaning like the undead, their final EP is scabrous and abhorrent listening. I'll admit that there's a certain amount of gawp-in-horror entertainment to be had from seeing the scabrous insides of sundry slackers' houses - but the weekly ‘look at the BUGS that were in your carpet!’ Synonyms unpleasant, disagreeable, nasty, distasteful, offensive, objectionable, unsavoury, unpalatable, dislikeable, off-putting, awful, terrible, dreadful, frightful, revolting, repulsive, repellent, repugnant, disgusting, odious, vile, foul, abhorrent, loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, insufferable, intolerable, unacceptable, despicable, contemptible, beyond the pale, poisonous, noxious, obscene, base, hideous 2Indecent; salacious. 下流的；猥亵的 scabrous details included being regularly seen with a mistress 下流细节包括常被看见与一情妇厮混。 Example sentencesExamples This time out I'm happy to report (only because I don't have to live with the guy) that he's as scabrous and brutal as all his little goat-children could've hoped. It's lurid, scabrous, scatological, banal and brilliant. Anti-government cartoons in the 1790s often included the most scabrous, even treasonable, representations of King George III. He, by stark contrast, was scabrous and confessional, sexy, vernacular, and totally unpredictable. They are intentionally, indeed overinsistently, scabrous; and they are conscientiously repetitious in their linear, timeless design. In the end, it proves disastrous - disastrous for complexity, analysis, richness, variegation - for the novel to conjure its vision of Texas from a scabrous adolescent narrator. Nobody wants to see 16 in a movie house anymore, unless it's something scabrous or has a lot of sex in it or something like that… Usually described as a ballad opera - which makes it sound safe - it is a play with songs, the songs in question being popular pieces of the day, fitted with new lyrics that formed scabrous takes on the original words. Oh, one more thing, please ignore the snide remark some scabrous graffito vandal appended to the end of the article. Not all the ‘women whom he chose to love’ shared this lady's antipathy, as we learn from the gallant, erotic, or downright scabrous poems they occasioned. When so much of TV and film is scabrous, parents rightly want to control what their youngsters see and, in response to this need, the world of Kid Vid has emerged. ‘You have to acknowledge that the Scots tradition is very adept at the scabrous song,’ says the singer. Now it's pig easy to go on the Internet and just grab the planet's most scabrous excesses - absolute debauchery - you lay it out there with the complete sterile access of a surgeon or a medical test. Synonyms pornographic, indecent, salacious, smutty, x-rated, lewd, rude, dirty, filthy, vulgar, foul, coarse, crude, gross, vile, nasty, disgusting, offensive, shameless, immoral, improper, immodest, impure, indecorous, indelicate, unwholesome, off colour, lubricious, risqué, ribald, bawdy, suggestive, titillating, racy, erotic, carnal, sensual, sexy, lascivious, lecherous, licentious, libidinous, goatish, degenerate, depraved, amoral, debauched, dissolute, prurient Derivatives scabrously adverb He wrote caustically about Jews publicly and scabrously privately. Example sentencesExamples Initially his trauma in the trenches has left him literally speechless, but when Rivers gets him to talk, Billy turns out to be scabrously angry and anxious to return to the front. scabrousness nounˈskabrəsnəsˈskeɪbrəsnəsˈskæbrəsnəs Origin Late 16th century (first used to describe an author's style as 'harsh, unmusical, unpolished'): from French scabreux or late Latin scabrosus, from Latin scaber 'rough'. Definition of scabrous in US English: scabrous adjectiveˈskæbrəsˈskabrəs 1Rough and covered with, or as if with, scabs. 表面粗糙的；多痂的 Example sentencesExamples Tears scald his scabrous cheeks, and he can hardly laugh - even the sardonic bark he reserves for all humanity - without torturing his jaw. After encounters with ‘a scabrous German shepherd’ and ‘two blood-eyed mastiffs’, he walks past two ‘copulating dogs’ on his way to talk to Maximo, another shark-man. Mengele, she believes, chose her for this favoured project because, although sick and lousy, her flesh was remarkably unmarked - Mengele had an aversion to scarred or scabrous skin. The troll's scabrous face fell, and he stopped abruptly. Most of the stripped down monologue consists of a topless Dee Dee baring his soul and his scabrous white chest, which starkly contrasts against the black backdrop. The gargoyles are functionless and the half-timbered effect of the East wing, which is a later addition and houses a billiard room, is entirely bogus, the timbers being painted on to a surface of scabrous cement. Dropping the rag over the side of the bedpost, she turned and let the scabrous shard fall into a small bowl on the dresser; it greeted a similarly discordant family with a slight tink of angular metallic collision. As he ran up the flight of stairs, a superior smile twisted his scabrous face. An audible hissing pop accompanied the loosening of the last bolt, and at the sight of my leprous fore-arms and the great plates of scabrous horn which have overgrown my chest, the roust-abouts screamed like a pair of God-damned fat ladies. Given the sorry state of the pets for sale in the weekend markets and the indifference of the local population, farangs as well as Thais, to scabrous stray animals this dream was put on hold. His face was scabrous and lumpy, his flesh a sickly shade toward green. After an unnerving 45-minute ride on scabrous rural roads (one pothole too many and my rented '80s Honda 50 cc would have gone flying), I came across a tiny town. What had once been a set of four horrible, deep pits in her hand - two on her palm and two on the back - had turned into a scabrous mass of clotted blood. The landing was home to a pair of scabrous aging brutes, a wolf dog (I suspect) and a forlorn Great Dane. Synonyms dry, flaky, flaking, peeling, scurfy, rough, mangy, scabious 2Indecent; salacious. 下流的；猥亵的 scabrous publications Example sentencesExamples He, by stark contrast, was scabrous and confessional, sexy, vernacular, and totally unpredictable. Oh, one more thing, please ignore the snide remark some scabrous graffito vandal appended to the end of the article. Usually described as a ballad opera - which makes it sound safe - it is a play with songs, the songs in question being popular pieces of the day, fitted with new lyrics that formed scabrous takes on the original words. ‘You have to acknowledge that the Scots tradition is very adept at the scabrous song,’ says the singer. They are intentionally, indeed overinsistently, scabrous; and they are conscientiously repetitious in their linear, timeless design. This time out I'm happy to report (only because I don't have to live with the guy) that he's as scabrous and brutal as all his little goat-children could've hoped. Now it's pig easy to go on the Internet and just grab the planet's most scabrous excesses - absolute debauchery - you lay it out there with the complete sterile access of a surgeon or a medical test. When so much of TV and film is scabrous, parents rightly want to control what their youngsters see and, in response to this need, the world of Kid Vid has emerged. It's lurid, scabrous, scatological, banal and brilliant. Nobody wants to see 16 in a movie house anymore, unless it's something scabrous or has a lot of sex in it or something like that… Anti-government cartoons in the 1790s often included the most scabrous, even treasonable, representations of King George III. Not all the ‘women whom he chose to love’ shared this lady's antipathy, as we learn from the gallant, erotic, or downright scabrous poems they occasioned. In the end, it proves disastrous - disastrous for complexity, analysis, richness, variegation - for the novel to conjure its vision of Texas from a scabrous adolescent narrator. Synonyms pornographic, indecent, salacious, smutty, x-rated, lewd, rude, dirty, filthy, vulgar, foul, coarse, crude, gross, vile, nasty, disgusting, offensive, shameless, immoral, improper, immodest, impure, indecorous, indelicate, unwholesome, off colour, lubricious, risqué, ribald, bawdy, suggestive, titillating, racy, erotic, carnal, sensual, sexy, lascivious, lecherous, licentious, libidinous, goatish, degenerate, depraved, amoral, debauched, dissolute, prurient Origin Late 16th century (first used to describe an author's style as ‘harsh, unmusical, unpolished’): from French scabreux or late Latin scabrosus, from Latin scaber ‘rough’.
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