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  • adjective comparative form of scaly: more scaly

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Examples

  • I wasn't sure how director Gore Verbinski Pirates of the Caribbean would fair by leaving the swashbuckling heroics of Captain Jack Sparrow for the much scalier territory of Rango, but he greatly benefited from an amazing animation department.

    Richard Karpala: Review: Rango Richard Karpala 2011

  • The children visit the remaining one after school each day, this one is getting larger, scalier and moodier despite the tender stepchicken raising her at Fingerpie Farms.

    A Couple of April Fools (review) ____Maggie 2006

  • The children visit the remaining one after school each day, this one is getting larger, scalier and moodier despite the tender stepchicken raising her at Fingerpie Farms.

    Archive 2006-11-01 ____Maggie 2006

  • In the midst there was a wonderful scalier or winding-stair, the entry whereof was without the house, in a vault or arch six fathom broad.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • In the midst there was a wonderful scalier or winding-stair, the entry whereof was without the house, in a vault or arch six fathom broad.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Anson, thinner and scalier and more snakelike than ever, was dealing a greasy, dirty deck of cards, his opponent being the square-shaped, black-visaged Moze.

    The Man of the Forest 1919

  • Anson, thinner and scalier and more snakelike than ever, was dealing a greasy, dirty deck of cards, his opponent being the square-shaped, black-visaged Moze.

    The Man of the Forest Zane Grey 1905

  • If you were to let it have nothing to eat but mice and birds it might grow larger and fiercer, and scalier and tailier, and get wings and turn into the beginning of dragons.

    The Book of Dragons H. Granville [Illustrator] Fell 1891

  • There's a new, scalier lord of the jungle: Tarzan the chameleon.

    Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed 2010

  • In the midst there was a wonderful scalier or winding-stair, the entry whereof was without the house, in a vault or arch six fathom broad.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

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