Definition of "pustulous" []

• Bearing pustules (adjective)
• Resembling a pustule (adjective)

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• "Not 17 or 18 or 21 – all of which still count as extremely young – but 16: the age of moping and loafing, of experimenting disastrously with basic heavy-metal guitar; of loitering quite near groups of girls and hoping to appear fascinatingly aloof rather than pustulous and gaunt."
• "Bridalplasty is par for a very, very bizarre cultural course that started somewhere back on MTV's first drunken Real World and will end somewhere humid and pustulous, where no light escapes."
• "Many years later, when he faced his own personal firing squad (which he didn't actually face but sort of chewed) my brother, Seymour “Seymour” Gassbag, would remember the night, some 200 years or so earlier when, during a siege of Ebola fever in our family, our sister Fanny was moved into the room that we shared with eight or nine of our pustulous, febrile siblings, all of whom would die."