Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a scurvy manner; meanly; shabbily.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a scurvy manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
scurvy manner;contemptibly ;despicably ; in a low, disgusting and mean way.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a despicable, ignoble manner
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Examples
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It's my firm conviction that Griffiths is a rogue, and that he treated me quite scurvily yesterday.
A SON OF THE SUN 2010
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'See but the different way in which things strike people! however, it is not very pretty in you, Camilla, to praise him for treating me so scurvily.
Camilla 2008
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Damascus, 463 and see what hath become of the cook whose sweetmeats we ate and whose head we broke, for indeed he was kind to us and we entreated him scurvily.
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The next day Voltaire saw his man in prison with irons on and praying an alms from the passers-by, and so asked him whether he still thought as scurvily of an archbishop in
Voltaire 2007
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We are come off but scurvily from our second attempt upon St. Malo; it is our last for this season; and, in my mind, should be our last forever, unless we were to send so great a sea and land force as to give us a moral certainty of taking some place of great importance, such as Brest,
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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I replied that, as he had treated us so scurvily, even forbidding his people to sell us any food, if he did not bring us a fowl and some eggs as part of his duty as a chief, he should receive no present from me.
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Honest Crowe thought himself scurvily used by a man whom he had cultivated with such humility and veneration; and, after an incoherent ejaculation of sea oaths, went in quest of his nephew, in order to make him acquainted with this unlucky transaction.
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Then what signifies calling every moment upon the devil, and courting his friendship, since you find how scurvily he uses you.
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He was no sooner disengaged, than he betook himself to his heels, and left me to maintain the dispute as I should think proper; and, indeed, I came off but scurvily, for, before I could avail myself of my speed, I received a blow on the eye, from one of the other two, that had well nigh deprived me of the use of that organ.
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The Prince treated me very scurvily, Alfred, and I shall take an opportunity of telling him so on Monday.
The Way We Live Now 2004
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