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- adjective
superlative form ofscrubby : mostscrubby .
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Examples
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Honest to God, Saxon, he don't like all his horses as much as I like the last hair on the last tail of the scrubbiest of the bunch.
CHAPTER X 2010
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Dress for the highest moments of your calling, not for the scrubbiest.
Archive 2006-06-25 PeaceBang 2006
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Dress for the highest moments of your calling, not for the scrubbiest.
Dress For the Highest Moments Of Your Calling PeaceBang 2006
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The best you could do was get down in a valley, try and find the scrubbiest, lowest stand of trees, and get under them.
Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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The best you could do was get down in a valley, try and find the scrubbiest, lowest stand of trees, and get under them.
Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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Between the Sutlej and Lahore lie fifty of the hottest, flattest, scrubbiest miles on earth, and I supposed we'd cover them in a long day's ride, but Sardul said we should lie overnight at a serai* (* Inn, rest-house.) a few miles from the city: there was something he wanted me to see.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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Between the Sutlej and Lahore lie fifty of the hottest, flattest, scrubbiest miles on earth, and I supposed we'd cover them in a long day's ride, but Sardul said we should lie overnight at a serai* (* Inn, rest-house.) a few miles from the city: there was something he wanted me to see.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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We must educate the ordinary mother who is so busy over her wash tubs and babies that she has no time to seek information upon subject which she doesn't even know exist, who does not even know how to feed her baby as well as the scrubbiest cat does her kitten, who does not know what eugenics means and is interested in it even less.
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Bordman found himself straining his eyes for the merest, scrubbiest of bushes and for however stunted and isolated a wisp of grass.
Sand Doom Murray Leinster 1935
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Honest to God, Saxon, he don't like all his horses as much as I like the last hair on the last tail of the scrubbiest of the bunch.
Chapter 10 1913
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