scabrous
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˈskæbrəs/
- Offensive
- Many critics found her scabrous novel too explicit for mainstream readers, calling it indecent.
- scabrous humor
Examples
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His scabrous remarks during the interview shocked the audience and sparked widespread debate.
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I used to think Loria was a dead-eyed grave robber, a fit replacement for that scabrous garbageman Wayne Huizenga.
Blog text (15) -
But despite her scabrous delivery, it turns out K$ is all about love and unity.
Blog text (34) -
All this is the kind of scabrous wit that readers of the Great Contrarian have come to relish.
Blog text (21) -
Only a scabrous joke, a final appeal to Parmeno's lower instincts, provokes a response, whose essence is betrayed by laughter.
Academic text (1995) -
Much of this discourse was necessarily apologetic and polemical; some of it was intemperate and scabrous, even revolutionary, in intent and implication.
Academic text (2006) -
Furthermore, his scabrous exhibitionism and his salacious song solidify his identification with sexuality and with the most banal aspects of this universal preoccupation.
Academic text (1990) -
Procopius's works are the detailed History of the Wars, the more candid—not to say scabrous—Secret History, and a laudatory description of Justinian's building activity, the Buildings.
Academic text (1997) -
The scabrous object of my affection, viz. Zippy de Doodah, left daily at daybreak to wrench, ratchet, and render his fingernails unsightlier.
Fiction book (1997) -
The comedian is known for his scabrous jokes that push the boundaries of good taste.
Synonyms
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8.6
Content about sex that is rude and shocking
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8.6
Dirty and unpleasant, like a place with sticky floors
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8.0
Having very low moral standards
Antonyms
Compounds
How Indecent
- Offensive
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6.2
- Offensive
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9.9
- Offensive
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9.9
- NSFW
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7.9
- Offensive
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6.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scabrous also came from the same Latin root scaber and the English word scab, because a scab is something unpleasant to see. So scabrous can describe writing or speech that is 'indecent' or 'risqué'.