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What does festerous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (rare) That is characteristic of, or prone to festering.
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Turner is, at heart, a festerous social canker.
We are by no means saying the culture was festerous, but there was a challenge to bring these negative subcultures together.
The rivalry is deep-seated and hidden, the antagonism ugly and festerous.
I saw him remove the scabs with a piece of stick, then coax the dog to lick the festerous patches into a state of relative cleanliness.
We also find that we are still carriers of the festerous and lingering stench which permeates everything connected with imperialism and slavemaking.
Poster General Burleson has succeeded in penalizing the press by extorting a festerous rate of postage.

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