Adjective : a scurvy trick. From Dictionary.com.
That gift, he will never look half scurvily enough. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Pantomime] Reference
"And he paid us scurvily, the yellow-faced rascal!" cried the spies. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
This puzzled me scurvily, and I did not know what answer to make of it. From Wordnik.com. [Moll Flanders] Reference
Corsican majesty has been scurvily treated by a certain administration. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom] Reference
History records how nobly Garibaldi acted, and how scurvily he was treated. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
I find that in this atrabilarious effusion you have treated ourselves very scurvily. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference
He talks loud, and baudily, and scurvily as a part of state, and they hear him with reverence. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Gymnast, and had most scurvily dragged him down when Pantagruel with his men came up to his relief. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
It's my firm conviction that Griffiths is a rogue, and that he treated me quite scurvily yesterday. From Wordnik.com. [A SON OF THE SUN] Reference
Habr Awal, and certainly, but for our presence, the strangers would have been scurvily treated by their. From Wordnik.com. [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference
Without great difficulty they entered into that straw-thatched cottage, scurvily built, naughtily movabled, and all besmoked. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
But who said that Nature had acted scurvily with the characters of women and had contracted their virtues into a narrow sphere?. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.] Reference
But de Marmont gave her over wilfully, scurvily to the allies. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days] Reference
And therefore do demand mine back again, thou'st us'd it scurvily. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I] Reference
Playhouse, and saw the Story of Amphytrion very scurvily represented. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...] Reference
My friend Perry has, indeed, 'et tu, Brute'-d me rather scurvily, for which. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2] Reference
We made him own it, which he did scurvily, and then talked of it like the rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal to Stella] Reference
They serve suicides scurvily here, Wellingborough; they don't bury them decently. From Wordnik.com. [Redburn. His First Voyage] Reference
Dame Nature would have indeed treated me scurvily had she reduced me to such absurd oracles. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
No matter what its history, it offers the hospitality so scurvily refused him at the "Sailor's Home.". From Wordnik.com. [The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea] Reference
I was punning scurvily with Sir Andrew Fountaine and Lord Pembroke this evening: do you ever pun now?. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal to Stella] Reference
And a very good thing too, you may say, when this Government has treated the British Army so scurvily. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
The Prince treated me very scurvily, Alfred, and I shall take an opportunity of telling him so on Monday. From Wordnik.com. [The Way We Live Now] Reference
How scurvily are poor single gentlemen who live alone treated by the candid tongues of their fellow-creatures!. From Wordnik.com. [Vivian Grey] Reference
It was not till the spring of 1744 that the turn of the Commons came, and then they were treated somewhat scurvily. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765] Reference
We followed them, first because these were the artists, second because they were guests and had been scurvily ill-used. From Wordnik.com. [In the South Seas] Reference
This was Edward Baines, who had been, as I have told on a previous page, so scurvily treated by the teetotallers in 1874. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885] Reference
Poor little original sinners, how very scurvily the world of books and picture-makers treated you less than a century ago!. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Books and Their Illustrators] Reference
Then what signifies calling every moment upon the devil, and courting his friendship, since you find how scurvily he uses you. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicar of Wakefield] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.