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SCROFULOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula
Example:
our canoe...lay with her scrofulous sides on the shore
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Similar:
ugly (displeasing to the senses)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Morally contaminated
Example:
denounce the scrofulous wealth of the times
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immoral (deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Afflicted with scrofula
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Adjectives
Similar:
ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)
Derivation:
scrofula (a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands)
