SCUR'VILY, adverb [from scurvy.] Basely; meanly; with coarse and vulgar incivility. The clergy were never more learned, or so scurvily treated. Swift.
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Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
SCUR'VILY, adverb [from scurvy.] Basely; meanly; with coarse and vulgar incivility. The clergy were never more learned, or so scurvily treated. Swift.
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