scabrous
Covered with scales or scabs; hence, very coarse or rough.
After the incident with the gasoline, Noel’s burnt arm remained scabrous and was susceptible to infections.
Disgusting, repellent.
figuratively
The novel was a flagrantly scabrous bodice-ripper, and Rachael was ashamed to read it in public.
Salacious, scandalous; concerning oneself with lurid or lascivious substance.
figuratively
Remember a few years ago there was that scabrous movie Snuff? When it played in New York there were enormous protests, huge publicity — and huge crowds and profits at the theater.
Of music, writing, etc.: lacking refinement; unmelodious, unmusical.
figuratively
[A]s his Verse is ſcabrous, and hobbling, and his Words not every where well choſen, the purity of Latin being more corrupted, than in the time of Juvenal, and conſequently of Horace, who writ when the Language was in the heighth of its perfection; ſo his diction is hard; his Figures are generally too bold and daring; and his Tropes, particularly his Metaphors, inſufferably ſtrain'd.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin scaber (“scabrous, rough; scabby, mangy, itchy”) (from scabō (“to scratch, scrape, abrade”), from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to scratch”)) + English -ous; compare French scabreux, Late Latin scabrōsus.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry scabrous (CC BY-SA 4.0).