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Meanings of scurvy in English
Synonyms
Examples for "low"
Examples for "low"
1
Health officials say the public health risk has been assessed as low.
2
Cases mostly involved young people, with a low proportion of severe cases.
3
Conclusions: Consumption of soy products is low in centres in Western Europe.
4
Crime is at a 12-year low in Northern Ireland, police said today.
5
The extremely low rate of community testing has public health experts worried.
1
It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state.
2
You behold in me the most miserable monarch in all the world.
3
He was miserable; he had no confidence in himself, in his future.
4
The idea-themiserable fancy rather-hasterribly corrupted the preaching of the gospel.
5
They lived in dirty houses situated in miserable parts of the slums.
1
Unless you happen to like abject poverty, violence, domestic desperation, and drugs.
2
The state of women is upon the whole very abject in Dahomy.
3
There, cowering in the hall, in abject terror, was De Luxe Dora.
4
The hour vanished in a slow mist of abject misery and shame.
5
She was the abject slave of man in nearly all the world.
1
Regular criminals might be scumbags, but they were scummy in human ways.
2
The water must be thoroughly scummy. It's like the gift of tongues!
3
They have a boggy stink, like frogs and trees and scummy water.
4
The lantern's light gleamed on something else under the scummy water.
5
Courtney and I went up a scummy set of back stairs.
1
She disgraced the family you know; ran away with that low-down printer.
2
You think I'm that low-down to leave her while she was pregnant?
3
They shoots craps and drinks and does low-down things all the time.
4
The best-behaved people are the low-down beggars, who are most decoratively devotional.
5
So, you going to give me the low-down on what to do?
Usage of scurvy in English
1
By Odin, the women of the North Danes are a scurvy breed.
2
The Finlanders were not attacked with scurvy, but the rest suffered severely.
3
His scurvy-ravaged legs gave under him and he winced with the pain.
4
Of remedies against scurvy the sweet-wort was proved to be most valuable.
5
In infants this is most often due to scurvy, sometimes to syphilis.
6
He says he does not think so: he thinks it is scurvy.
7
Like most ships of the time, Surville's crew was decimated by scurvy.
8
Here their men had a scurvy trick played them by the Banyai.
9
In Plymouth, Harrington suffered from scurvy, and at last he became insane.
10
A stalemate followed and the Crusaders were weakened by scurvy and plague.
11
Frost-bite maimed them at first; then scurvy, dysentery, fever, began to kill.
12
From a paper he had served so loyally this seemed scurvy treatment.
13
Young Gillam swore such coolness was scurvy treatment for an old friend.
14
The scurvy, Count, is a disease which begins with an evil tongue.
15
It had looked more like a scurvy bear crossed with a lion.
16
But why does he want to treat us in that scurvy fashion?
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Portuguese
Scurvy through the time
Scurvy across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common