scabbed

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adjective

Affected or covered with scabs.

RareScrabble 14

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of scab
adjectivescabbed (comparative more scabbed, superlative most scabbed)

comparative more scabbed · superlative most scabbed

  1. Affected or covered with scabs.
  2. broadlyVile; worthless.

    To you such scab’d harsh fruit is given, as raw / Young soldiers at their exercisings gnaw,

    1693, “Satire V”, in John Dryden, transl., The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, and of Aulus Persius Flaccus, volume 1, London: Stanhope Press, translation of Satires by Juvenal, published 1812, page 182

    Synonyms: paltry, scornworthy, no good, valueless, abject, filthy, base, beggarly

Synonyms & antonyms

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