(a.) Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.
(a.) Fig.: Harsh; unmusical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other "waves" have swept the noughties: the brilliantly scabrous and extreme Asian wave, and the passionate Latin American wave.
(2) Genes such as Notch and scabrous, known to be involved in bristle development, also participate in this process, suggesting that the specification of ommatidial founder cells and the formation of sensory organs in the adult epidermis may involve a similar mechanism, that of lateral inhibition.
(3) The scabrous locus was cloned, and it appears to encode a secreted protein partly related to the beta and gamma chains of fibrinogen.
(4) Mutations and duplications of vestigial and scabrous alter the severity of phenotypes associated with Notch mutations and duplications in a manner that is essentially tissue- and allele-specific.
(5) Interactions are described between the Notch locus of Drosophila melanogaster, and two other loci, scabrous and vestigial, which respectively affect the eyes and wings.
(6) I knew it when I read Amadeus for the first time, I knew it when I read the screenplay of Four Weddings and a Funeral (I had a premonition that I was going to be the funeral), and I knew it some years before either of those illustrious projects when in 1976 – I'd only been acting for three years – an actor friend, Richard Quick, handed me an untitled, unbound manuscript which proved to be the scabrous Sixteen Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis adapted into a one-man show.
(7) American comic writing is at its most rewarding when at its most scabrous.
(8) These interactions indicate that the products of vestigial and scabrous act in conjunction with Notch to stimulate the differentiation of specific cell types.
(9) Who could have imagined our most senior judge quoting the scabrous 18th-century radical John Wilkes in aid of his argument?
(10) ), but it was the best, most scabrous fun to be had here.
(11) It was produced by the scabrous MP and journalist, John Wilkes , in 1763 – a reaction to a weekly newspaper called the Briton, funded by public money to promote the government's cause.
(12) His scabrous commentary on his own times was perceived as startlingly pertinent and laugh-out-loud funny: filthy and deeply, gloriously, politically incorrect, even for 1976, when the concept had yet to be articulated.
(13) It encompasses parts of the last intron and exon of the scabrous (sca) gene, which encodes a secreted protein involved in cellular communication during neurogenesis.
(14) "I'm not going to suddenly stop admiring his unique comic talent because I've switched teams," he says, adding that there ought to be a vehicle to show off his "scabrous, dark, smart working-class Scottish humour".
(15) (I can only assume they were referring to the brilliantly scabrous interview by Camilla Long , in which Hefner was described as "the Norma Desmond of sex", who "leaps on any innuendo with demonic hunger", and lives in a kind of "porno Disney" at his Playboy mansion in Los Angeles.)
(16) Experiments with sheep and cattle being fed scabrous and nonscabrous diets similar in chemical composition show that sheep are more resistant than cattle to the increase in intrarumen pressure, decline in rumen contraction amplitude, and decrease in rumen contraction frequency caused by nonscabrous diets.
(17) I don't mind the noise they make - scabrous electronics meets vaguely indie-sounding rock.
(18) 'Scabrous' carry-on ... Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive Strange as it may seem, they were once taken very seriously indeed.
(19) These parasites may cause inflammation, thickening, scabrous and severe itching.
(20) "I was re-reading Down and Out in Paris and London recently," says Steadman who is responsible for a marvellously scabrous illustrated edition of Animal Farm .
Unmusical
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed, can we not say of Kafka, that far from being unmusical, he was far too musical for the conventional music to which he was at first subjected?
(2) Brod, always at pains to airbrush Kafka's image into hazy iconography – and possessing that sense of his own cultured condition beloved of the second-rate artist – won't allow that Kafka was unmusical: "he possessed a natural feeling for rhythm and tune," and he recounts that he used to "drag him along to concerts until I gave it up, when I found his reactions to them were of a purely visual character".
(3) Each pattern was strongest in experienced pianists' performances and decreased when pianists attempted to play unmusically.
(4) After all, what could be a more tactful reaction to a friend's bad piano setting of your poetry than to evade direct comment by claiming to be unmusical?