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scurvily

adv

Etymology

From scurvy + -ly.

  1. inherited from *(s)ker-✻ — “to cut off, sever; to divide, separate”
  2. inherited from *skurf-✻ — “to gnaw”
  3. inherited from scurf
  4. inherited from scurvi
  5. suffixed as scurvily — “scurvy + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a scurvy manner

    In a scurvy manner; in a low, disgusting and mean way.

    • If the crops turned out ill next year, the people laid the failure at the door of the ghosts, who fancied themselves scurvily treated and had taken their revenge by trampling down the corn.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA