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scurvy

adjective as in cheap

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In the 18th century, German immigrants coming to Pennsylvania boarded ships plagued with typhus, dysentery, smallpox, and scurvy.

Sea captains observed that fewer passengers contracted scurvy on ships stocked with casks of cider aboard.

You have had the impudence to have your bread baked under the ashes, you scurvy beggar!

Such as were sick of the scurvy or other diseases have not wanted physick or chyrurgery.

It was far more likely that she would reserve her scurvy tricks for some one else.

We were able to send the sufferers from scurvy to range the woods.

The sailors complained of it, and symptoms of scurvy appeared on board.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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