pustulous

Not 17 or 18 or 21 – all of which still count as extremely young – but 16: the age of moping and loafing, of experimenting disastrously with basic heavy-metal guitar; of loitering quite near groups of girls and hoping to appear fascinatingly aloof rather than pustulous and gaunt.

Enjoying the fleeting thrill of fragile prodigies is a national habit | Barney Ronay 2011

Bridalplasty is par for a very, very bizarre cultural course that started somewhere back on MTV's first drunken Real World and will end somewhere humid and pustulous, where no light escapes.

Mark Morford: Bridalplasty Meets the Tea Party Meets Extreme Porn, With Unfortunate Results 2010

Bridalplasty is par for a very, very bizarre cultural course that started somewhere back on MTV's first drunken Real World and will end somewhere humid and pustulous, where no light escapes.

Mark Morford: Bridalplasty Meets the Tea Party Meets Extreme Porn, With Unfortunate Results 2010

Bridalplasty is par for a very, very bizarre cultural course that started somewhere back on MTV's first drunken Real World and will end somewhere humid and pustulous, where no light escapes.

Mark Morford: Bridalplasty Meets the Tea Party Meets Extreme Porn, With Unfortunate Results 2010

Many years later, when he faced his own personal firing squad (which he didn't actually face but sort of chewed) my brother, Seymour “Seymour” Gassbag, would remember the night, some 200 years or so earlier when, during a siege of Ebola fever in our family, our sister Fanny was moved into the room that we shared with eight or nine of our pustulous, febrile siblings, all of whom would die.

Raise Really High The Roofbeam, Gassbag 2009

Many years later, when he faced his own personal firing squad (which he didn't actually face but sort of chewed) my brother, Seymour “Seymour” Gassbag, would remember the night, some 200 years or so earlier when, during a siege of Ebola fever in our family, our sister Fanny was moved into the room that we shared with eight or nine of our pustulous, febrile siblings, all of whom would die.

Raise Really High The Roofbeam, Gassbag 2009

In the vitriol over primacy claims to victimhood between females and blacks, we see our two candidates draining the pustulous boil of the once-silent liberal majority.

Nina Burleigh: Is Obama Man Enough To Be a Feminist Too? 2008

A large pustulous sore and the usual symptoms accompanying the disease were produced in consequence.

On Vaccination Against Smallpox 2005

Experience now tells me that almost the only variation which follows consists in the pustulous fluids remaining limpid nearly to the time of its total disappearance; and not, as in the direct smallpox, becoming purulent.

On Vaccination Against Smallpox 2005

On her hand was one large pustulous sore, which resembled that delineated in Plate No.I. (Plate appears in original.)

On Vaccination Against Smallpox 2005