scalier
- comparative of scaly.
Example Sentences
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But Sunny and Ned are a bit scalier that your typical lifelong mates — they are shingleback lizards that live at Melbourne Museum in Australia.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
If you were to let it have nothing to eat but mice and birds it might grow larger and fiercer, and scalier and tailier, and get wings and turn into the beginning of dragons.
From The Book of Dragons by Fell, H. Granville
In the midst there was a wonderful scalier or winding-stair, the entry whereof was without the house, in a vault or arch six fathom broad.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
Anson, thinner and scalier and more snakelike than ever, was dealing a greasy, dirty deck of cards, his opponent being the square-shaped, black-visaged Moze.
From The Man of the Forest by Grey, Zane
