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scabby

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scab·by  (skb)
adj. scab·bi·er, scab·bi·est
1. Having, consisting of, or covered with scabs.
2. Affected with scab or scabies.
3. Informal Contemptible; vile: scabby greed.

scabbi·ly adv.
scabbi·ness n.

scabby [ˈskæbɪ]
adj -bier, -biest
1. (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol having an area of the skin covered with scabs
2. (Medicine / Pathology) Pathol Obsolete having scabies
3. Informal despicable
scabbily  adv
scabbiness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.scabby - covered with scabs
rough, unsmooth - having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"
Translations
scabby [ˈskæbɪ] ADJ
1. [skin, knee etc] → lleno de costras
2. (Vet) → roñoso
scabby [ˈskæbi] adj [skin] → croûteux/euse
scabby
adj (+er)
skin, handsschorfig, grindig; kneesverschorft
(= having scabies)räudig
(inf: = dilapidated) → schäbig, oll (inf)
scabby [ˈskæbɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → crostoso/a


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Wherever there is aught puny, or sickly, or scabby, there do they creep like lice; and only my disgust preventeth me from cracking them.
Often have you bested me in the secret councils of Issus, but now in the field of war where men are truly gauged your scabby heart hath revealed its sores to all the world.
or I will search you, were you as leprous as Job, and as scabby as Caesar
 
 
 
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