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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Causing harm or mischief; injurious; destructive. Also scathful.
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- adj. Causing harm or mischief; injurious; destructive.
Etymologies
- From Middle English *scatheful (attested in derivative unnskaþefull), from Old English sceaþful ("hurtful"), equivalent to scathe + -ful. Cognate with Scots scathfull, scaithful ("harmful, hurtful, injurious, damaging"). (Wiktionary)
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