scabrous
- s rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
- s dealing with salacious or indecent material
a scabrous novel
- Another student, dressed as Cleaveland, rowed up, declared: "This place is too dirty to build a colony," and double-timed back down the river to the almost equally scabrous Lake .
- Looking in each of the four primary directions a young man faces a choice: an elderly man, a scabrous woman, a corpse or a monk.
- A few dumb gags about ROTC thugs and big breasts do not detract from the film's scabrous assaults on undergraduate caste systems, sanctimonious preppies and liberal pieties.