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scurvy
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  • I think I have scurvy.†  (source)
  • When I was a kid in high school I cut out vitamin C, I got scurvy.†  (source)
  • Come back, you scurvy dog!†  (source)
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  • It was the cleanest image of war I had ever seen; even the Air Force, reputedly so high above the infantry's mud, was stained with axle grease by comparison, and the Navy was vulnerable to scurvy.†  (source)
  • "He's got scurvy," our medic said.†  (source)
  • Men in their ranks were dying of scurvy.†  (source)
  • It was amazing we'd even made it past grade school without getting scurvy.†  (source)
  • He had survived pellagra in Persia, scurvy inthe Malayan archipelago, leprosy in Alexandria, beriberi in Japan, bubonic plague in Madagascar, an earthquake in Sicily, and a disastrous shipwreck in the Strait of Magellan.†  (source)
  • The rest of you scurvy bunch o' lubbers'd do well to follow his lead.†  (source)
  • And I think some words that Ginger has scattered among the Dwarfs are chiefly to blame for the scurvy return they made you.†  (source)
  • He looked closely at their eyes for signs of jaundice or scurvy, and checked heads for lice.†  (source)
  • "The scurvy," Nathan interjected, "she means she'd had the scurvy, which was cured as soon as the Russians took over—"†  (source)
  • Do you hear them raising their voices about the chain gangs, the slave camps, the fourteen-hour workday and the mortality from scurvy in the People's States of Europe?†  (source)
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rare meaning

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  • Scurvy riffraff!  (source)
    Scurvy = an old-fashioned word meaning not worth respecting
  • Scurvy rascals!  (source)
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