scabrous

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scabrous

having a rough surface.

Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005

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"An 'opera' whose musical foundations seemed entirely borne of the fleshpots and gin palaces, specifically an opera where arias -- instead of being arthouse confections -- were a festering muck-heap of scabrous little ditties belonging to everyone and no-one.

Newcastle's Northern Stage to welcome radical reworking of the Beggar's Opera in October; Kneehigh Theatre's Dead Dog in a Suitcase (& other love songs) promises to be bursting with 'wit, wonder and weirdness'

The troubled 'Mad' Max Rockatansky is left for dead by a gang of marauding scavengers who steal his iconic Interceptor car as a prize for warlord Scabrous Scrotus, son of Fury Road villain Immortan Joe.

MAD MAX

Car-jacked and beaten to within an inch of his life by the fabulously titled Scabrous Scrotus and his war boys, Max stumbles through the desert and is found by a hunchbacked scavenger called Chumbucket.

Have a blast with Mad Max

Out Thursday An accountant who meets a grisly end in an S and M dungeon and bank-robbing pensioners give John Niven's scabrous humour much to play with.

STAYING IN; BOOKS

Strangelove," "The Brink" tries to excavate comedy, or at least fairly scabrous satire, from the threat of nukes in the hands of a lunatic, and a budding international crisis.

The Brink

While Eye applauds efforts to promote engineering to young people, it cannot help feeling that El-Rewini's efforts are destined to fall on ears already deafened by the more scabrous attack of Eminem and mellifluous tones of Kanye.

The University of North Dakota College of Engineering and Mines doesn't sound hip--but it is hopping to make a splash in the world of music

The civil rights anthem was a song she taught her fellow inmates at the scabrous Mamak military prison in Ankara.

From tortured prisoner to Harvard graduate

They also shared a taste for sexual intrigue in poetry though Donne's was erotic and not scabrous.

HELL-RAISING POET IS REHABILITATED

EDINBURGH -- The Royal Lyceum Theatre here has a modest hit on its hands, a slightly scabrous play that tells the story of Scotland's parliamentary vote to dissolve itself and join the kingdom of England in 1707.

Scots ponder: Should they stay with the UK or should they go?

Pollard can do the lurching, scabrous rock of Zero Elasticity, Alice & Eddie (Fabulous Child Actors) and Planet Score while varnishing his arch social commentary with the sweetest tunes in Calling Up Washington, Save The Company and the Byrdslike Record Level Love.

ALBUMS OF THE WEEK; reviews: Mark Edwards, Michael Lee Bell, Tom White, Mike Fletcher, Simon Harker and Daren Francis

Unless it gets a political class that can restore lustre to its shining motto of secularism, the face of communalism in India will continue to remain scabrous.

UP riots reflect political cravenness

But Jonny's is still a worthwhile journey: the novel is "more than a scabrous sendup of American celebrity culture; it's also a poignant portrait of one young artist's coming of age" (New York Times).