scaly
adjective
scaliest
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superlativeof scaly.superlative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating the greatest degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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For of all the scaly localities I have struck this seems to me the scaliest.
From Psmith, Journalist by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
They brought up the dirtiest, scaliest lookin' man in the guard-house, and said that was Si Klegg, and that he resembled me so much that they wuz sure he wuz my son.
From Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro by John McElroy
The train of cars in which I was to trust my wallerable life, was the scaliest, rickytiest lookin lot of consarns that I ever saw on wheels afore.
From The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 2: War by Artemus Ward
She did not know that this Congo River was the home of the Crocodile, the biggest, fiercest, scaliest, hungriest Crocodile in all Africa.
From The Curious Book of Birds by E. Boyd (Elmer Boyd) Smith
And for perhaps a minute there was one of the scaliest silences I've ever run up against.
From My Man Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
