scabrous

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scabrous /ˈskeɪbrəs, ˈskabrəs/

▶adjective

• 1 rough and covered with, or as if with, scabs.

• 2 salacious or sordid.

– derivatives
scabrously adverb,
scabrousness noun.

– origin C16: from Fr. scabreux or late L. scabrosus, from L. scaber ‘rough’.