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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

Worse than this scurvily decimated condition of the people, was the intrusion of some unprincipled and unprivileged adventurers from Rochelle, who had been bartering fire-arms with the Indians for the Company's furs.

From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Roger, Charles

Send him to me, for my head aches scurvily, and he shall dip his handkerchief in vinegar and set it upon my forehead.'

From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford, Ford Madox

"A special messenger from Paris," I muttered, and, going forward, recognised Pillot, whom I had treated so scurvily at the inn.

From My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France by Hayens, Herbert

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 Gilpin, Sidney