Adjective
- 1. scrofulous, ill (vs. well), sick
- usage: afflicted with scrofula
- 2. scrofulous, immoral (vs. moral)
- usage: morally contaminated; "denounce the scrofulous wealth of the times"- J.D.Hart
- 3. scrofulous, ugly (vs. beautiful)
- usage: having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula; "our canoe...lay with her scrofulous sides on the shore"- Farley Mowat
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