scurvily
- 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
Otherwise you had come scurvily out of that wash.'
From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford, Ford Madox
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 White, Gleeson
But de Marmont gave her over wilfully, scurvily to the allies.
From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
Fate had treated him scurvily in directing him to a flat where a revolver and handcuffs seemed to be part of the necessary fittings.
From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George
