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Definition of Scabbiest
1. scabby [adj] - See also: scabby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scabbiest
Literary usage of Scabbiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Employers' Associations in the United States: A Study of Typical Associations by Clarence Elmore Bonnett (1922)
"... proud of the characterization of Indianapolis by union agitators as, " The
graveyard of union aspirations; the scabbiest hellhole in the United States. ..."
2. What is There in Religion? by Henry Sloane Coffin (1922)
"With God the scabbiest moral leper and the most grasping society can be cleansed
and renewed with incredible swiftness. That is the heart of the Gospel of ..."
3. Notes on English Divines by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853)
"But what right has a Christian pastor to admit, much less to invite, the Wolf of
temporal power, even against the scabbiest sheep of his flock ? ..."
4. Land, Labor and Gold: Or, Two Years in Victoria : with Visits to Sydney and by William Howitt (1855)
"... the squatters are killing off first what they call their hospital flocks —
the scabbiest sheep, and those worn to skeletons with foot-rot; ..."
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