Scabrous (adj)
skab-rus
Rough and covered with, or as if with, scabs./Unpleasant unattractive.
Indecent; salacious.
Late 16th century (first used to describe an author’s style as ‘harsh, unmusical, unpolished’): from French scabreux or late Latin scabrosus, from Latin scaber ‘rough’.
Example sentences
“The lizard’s scabrous skin is also a defence”
“It’s scabrous behaviour, seen out with his mistress like that!”
Praetorian (adj) (noun) pri-taw-ree-un of or relating to a praetor (a magistrate in the Roman republic). a soldier of the Praetorian Guard (Roman imperial army) First recorded in 1375–1425; late…
