Adjective : a scurvy trick. From Dictionary.com.
A staggering hound, with scurviness and sores, came up the steps, then on the porch, and licked his face. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
"I guessed that my beautiful stepmother intended me some such scurviness from the circumstance of her having kept me in ignorance of my father's death. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Martin's Summer] Reference
He had seen through this hypocritical scurviness. From Wordnik.com. [Shallow Soil] Reference
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