So abased, so monotonous is everything that meets the eye, that when the Ganges comes down it might be expected to wash the excrescence back into the soil.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Merriam-Webster
— a projection or outgrowth especially when abnormal
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Macmillan
— a part that has been added to something and looks ugly
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Collins
— If you describe something such as a building, addition, or development as an excrescence, you strongly disapprove of it because you think it is unnecessary, bad, or ugly.
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1 use of ‘excrescence’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster