Clean and Scurvy

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Clean adjective - Free from dirt or stain.

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Scurvy is an antonym for clean.

Nearby Words: clear, cleaned, cleanup, clearing, cleanly

Scurvy adjective - Arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust.

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Clean is an antonym for scurvy in topics: crude, dirty, obscene, poor.

Your captain and some of your mates appear far more clean and healthy than standard (owing to limited portraits and tiny sprites, mostly), but starvation, scurvy, piracy, and rats are all common.

Source: Wooden Ships and Iron Men

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