scurviest

And you will also find, if you ever have the sense or courage to look the facts of modern history in the face, that those two itches, for the pot and the pipe, have been the roots of every other demoralization of the filthiest and literally 'scurviest' sort among

Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859

The story's got an alien terrorist and is written all mad editorialist while the prose is always the scurviest

Things People Like to Write About; Or, This Week is Already Off to a Bad Start 2009

But in reality, they're rather preoccupied at home, consumed with the scurviest concerns.

Melik Kaylan: The Al Gore Smear: Gossip as an Instrument of Power 2010

But in reality, they're rather preoccupied at home, consumed with the scurviest concerns.

Melik Kaylan: The Al Gore Smear: Gossip as an Instrument of Power 2010

When Shihab al-Din heard this, he came down from his shop and seized the broker by the collar, saying, “O scurviest of brokers, what aileth thee to bring us a damsel to flout and make mock of us, one after other, with her verses and talk that a curse is?”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

I've always said, Them Jewish pirates be the scurviest of all.

Shenanigans at the Jolliest Roger Douglas Hoffman 2005

Campbell country; now, as I say, they were very snod, the scurviest of the knaves set up with his hosen and brogues.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

He came not often, but ever was he welcome, those nights the more glorious for his qualities of humour and generosity, his tales that stirred like the brassy cry of trumpets, his tolerance of the fool and his folly, his fatalist excuse for any sin except the scurviest.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

The curs of the street dog his heels, as he goes, And the scurviest rascal may rail at the wight.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879

West, who have sunk themselves by gambling, swindling, machine-making, and gluttony, into the scurviest louts that have ever fouled the Earth with the carcases she lent them.

Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens John Ruskin 1859