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scabrous

/skab-ruhs/US // ˈskæb rəs //UK // (ˈskeɪbrəs) //

粗糙的,棘手的,粗糙,棘手

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a rough surface because of minute points or projections.
    • : indecent or scandalous; risqué; obscene: scabrous books.
    • : full of difficulties.

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Examples

  • From Romantic squish to scabrous satirist to rebel wrangler to, finally, Ambassador of Goodwill.

  • Lucretius is scabrous and rough in these; he seeks them: as some do Chaucerisms with us, which were better expunged and banished.

  • The spores are rounded, and rough (scabrous) on the surface.

  • Whereupon Khalid, who was then in the first of his teens, takes a big scabrous rock and sends it flying against that door.

  • Then we incontinently proceed to stone him to death with scabrous adjectives!

  • Blades long, dark green, succulent and scabrous: ridges numerous and flat above, but distinct (Fig. 9).