scurvy
noun
a disease marked by swollen and bleeding gums, livid spots on the skin, prostration, etc., due to a diet lacking in vitamin C.
scurvier
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comparativeof scurvy.comparative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating a greater degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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The films draws viewers into this world, allows them to fall in love with it, even as it sets them at a distance from the scurvier action of the characters.
From Time Magazine Archive
The "rheumatiz" has much to answer for all through English country-sides, but it never played a scurvier trick than in laying thee by the heels, when thou wast yet in a green old age.
From Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
Full many a stranger and from many a land Hath lodged in this old castle, and my hand Served them; but never has there passed this way A scurvier ruffian than our guest to-day.
From Alcestis by Gilbert Murray
