scabrous detail
- noun
- Offensive
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detalle escabroso
- Some memoirs include every scabrous detail to attract readers' attention.
Examples
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His novel was filled with scabrous detail that shocked the conservative audience.
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The journalist promised not to publish any scabrous detail about the politician’s private life.
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The documentary avoided the scabrous detail and focused on the victims' recovery instead.
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The article included a scabrous detail about the politician's past.
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Did you read that scabrous detail in the newspaper?
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The article revealed a scabrous detail about the celebrity's scandalous affair.
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She was criticized for including scabrous detail in her biography that offended many families.
Synonyms
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Private family or personal matters that embarrass people if the public finds out
Secret facts that could make someone look bad if people know them
Antonyms
How Shocking
- Informal
- Offensive
- Informal
- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The adjective 'scabrous' (risqué, obscene) directly modifies 'detail(s)' (specific facts), so the combined meaning — sexually suggestive or scandalous information — is transparently derived from the constituents. This is a compositional, non-idiomatic phrase whose sense is predictable for a learner who already knows both words.
Etymology
Scabrous detail may come from the image of a scab, a rough, ugly bit of skin, so scabrous came to mean something coarse or shocking. So scabrous detail means a small fact that is 'shocking or scandalous information'.