Scabrous

So it’s good to know that as scabrous a wit as his has gone through the sensitivity reader mixer and come out the other side not feeling as if his novel has been denuded in any way.

Give me the scatological transgressions of Brown’s Yummy Fur, the scabrous snark of Clowes’s Eightball, the kinetic Kirbyisms of Tom Scioli’s American Barbarian, the spandex-adjacent violence of Michel Fiffe’s Copra.

All eyes are on the prize as Jesse Armstrong’s scabrous drama reaches its conclusion.

The depressed witch, her scabrous cat, the scheming Jones, and hapless Owl offer an update on the domestic stoner comedy of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, but with a generous helping of pathos and misanthropy replacing the Bros’ laid back mellow.

The scabrous one-pager “Future Presidents” features nine putrid possibilities for the country’s highest office, now that the bar has been lowered; “Infected Robert Durst Hangnail” is perhaps the only one that can be printed here.

The scabrous surface that results isn’t a less-is-more approach, either.

Scabrous verse libels of the type known as pasquinades were particularly abundant during the conclave which followed Leo's death in 1521 and made imputations about Leo's unchastity - implying or asserting homosexual activity.