Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing harm or mischief; injurious; destructive. Also
scathful .
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- adjective Causing
harm ormischief ;injurious ;destructive .
Etymologies
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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").
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