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.
scurvily
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a word derived from
scurvy.
Example Sentences
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All about a chippie named Cathy who treats her rejected suitor so scurvily that he feels like a $50-a-week circus performer.
From Time Magazine Archive
In after years, when the bitterness of old feuds was nearly, if not altogether worn out, Litt expressed regret that he had treated Richardson's merits as a wrestler somewhat scurvily in Wrestliana.
From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Sidney Gilpin
Messer Torello, hearing this, was at once rejoiced and ashamed; rejoiced to have had such a guest and ashamed for that himseemed he had entertained him but scurvily.
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne
Poor little original sinners, how very scurvily the world of books and picture-makers treated you less than a century ago!
From Children's Books and Their Illustrators by Gleeson White
The police treated me very scurvily; they took no notice at all.
From A Novelist on Novels by Walter Lionel George
