The wildest, most scabrous jokes in this lewd hit comedy spring from a recognizable male dilemma.

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Finally, the scabrous politics of Washington could blight federal assistance to improve manufacturing.

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But anybody in the Merlot-making business, as he is, recognizes the scabrous quote from the movie Sideways that sent sales of that wine into free fall.

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