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单词 scurvily
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scurvilyadv.

/ˈskəːvɪli/
Etymology: < scurvy adj. + -ly suffix2.
Now archaic.
In a scurvy manner.
a. Shabbily, meanly; sorrily, unsatisfactorily.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > [adverb]
noughtlyeOE
litherOE
naughtlyOE
litherlya1225
simplya1325
miseaselyc1330
wretchedlyc1340
lewdlyc1386
unhappily1390
miserably?a1425
lodderlyc1425
sorrily1496
singly1548
naughtily1574
sillily1581
lamentably1585
evilly1587
woefully1592
scurvily1616
execrably1633
grievously1742
miscreantly1744
queasily1845
fecklessly1862
God-forsakenly1913
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adverb] > in a paltry, mean, or contemptible manner
lowly1440
peltingly1555
meanlyc1561
miserablya1586
scurvily1616
mean1719
pettily1791
peddlingly1892
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adverb]
uncharitablyc1386
meanly1602
scurvily1616
meana1626
ungenerously1722
unsportinglya1974
1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) v. iv, in Wks. I. 243 His hat was carried skiruily.
a1674 Earl of Clarendon Dialogue Want of Respect due Age in Tracts (1727) 306 We are scurvily used, but that is because we are scurvy Fellows, and deserve no better.
1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 244 Her Fondness for a Spark of hers was scurvily interpreted.
1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 12 Dec. (1948) I. 119 And, passing an evening scurvily enough, [I] did not come home till eight.
1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. v. 119 I will lay no bets about Miss Grey,..I think I should act very scurvily, if I were to make her the subject of any idle debate betwixt you and me.
1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country ii. 111 The young pair quitted Paris to reside At London: which repaid the compliment But scurvily.
b. Sourly, rudely. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > [adverb]
crabbedlya1420
cursedly1430
currishly1519
thrawnlya1522
crustily1578
scurvily1608
shrewishlya1616
doggedly?c1663
ungenially1858
crankily1864
ill-naturedly1865
cantankerously1868
dourly1871
grumpily1882
1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) iv. sig. E4 v Speak pittifully, looke scuruily, and dissemble cunningly.
1647 J. Berkenhead Pref. Verses in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Wks. sig. d4v Such boyst'rous Trifles Thy Muse would not brooke, Save when she'd show how scurvily they looke.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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