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- adverb In a
scabrous way.
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Examples
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Against all pharmaceutical odds, he has held on to a substantial portion of his own history and has turned it into the most scabrously honest and essential rock memoir in a long time.
Keith Richards's 'Life': An unexpectedly clear look at years as a Rolling Stone Lou Bayard 2010
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The author's most ambitious work yet - a brilliant and scabrously entertaining riff on contemporary America.
The Ask: Summary and book reviews of The Ask by Sam Lipsyte. 2010
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Against all pharmaceutical odds, he has held on to a substantial portion of his own history and has turned it into the most scabrously honest and essential rock memoir in a long time.
Keith Richards's 'Life': An unexpectedly clear look at years as a Rolling Stone Lou Bayard 2010
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The most scabrously honest and essential rock memoir in a long time.
Nonfiction Post 2010
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Despite some scabrously funny dialogue, "Zack and Miri" can't compete with the best of the Apatow comedies, which have wrung finer variations on the moves Smith pioneered.
The Laugh Factory 2008
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Bad SantaDirected by Terry ZwigoffAn antidote to forced holiday cheer, this scabrously funny misanthropic comedy is not for the whole family.
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He was gossipy, indiscreet and scabrously funny about his enemies step forward Henry Kissinger and Bill Clinton.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Mick Brown 2011
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But have you thought that perhaps Koons is engaging in legal action as performance art - a scabrously ironic commentary on the impossibility of ownership in today's fragmented, multimedia, endlessly self-reflexive world.
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But have you thought that perhaps Koons is engaging in legal action as performance art - a scabrously ironic commentary on the impossibility of ownership in today's fragmented, multimedia, endlessly self-reflexive world.
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He was gossipy, indiscreet and scabrously funny about his enemies step forward Henry Kissinger and Bill Clinton.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Mick Brown 2011
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