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2. punctilious, formal, correct, decorous, proper, conventional; strict, rigid, stiff, starched; exact, precise, accurate, close; meticulous, particular, finical, finicky, picky, fussy, hard to please; critical, exacting, demanding, painstaking, fastidious; minute, detailed, fine, nice, thorough, searching; scientific, mathematical, severe, rigorous. scrutinize, v. examine, study, peruse, pore, pore over; investigate, search, search into, probe, probe into, Archaic. indagate; inspect, survey, observe, look over, eye, Inf. eyeball, keep an eye on, SI. give the eye, SI. give the once-over; take a long, hard look; perscrutate, Obs., Rare, perscrute, Obs. perlustrate, examine thoroughly or point by point, go over step by step, make a close study of. scrutiny, n. 1. examination, study, perusal, per-scrutation, Obs. perlustration; investigation, probe, inquiry, checkup, Archaic, indagation; research, canvass, analysis; survey, overview.
2. surveillance, observation, observance; close study or attention.
3. close or careful look, SI. the eye, SI. the glad eye, SI. the once-over. scuffle, v. 1. fight, struggle, tussle, battle, SI. mix it up, SI. go at it; brawl, riot.
2. fuss, flutter, bustle, hurry-scurry, rush about or around, tear around, buzz or whiz about, dart to and fro, scramble, run around like a chicken with its head cut off.
3. shuffle, shamble, scuff, drag one's feet.
-n. 4. fight, struggle, tussle, battle, Inf. mix-up; brawl, riot, free-for-all, donnybrook, brouhaha, fray, affray, melee, Inf. knock-down-drag-out; rumpus, Inf. ruckus, streetfight, Inf. rumble; snarl, imbroglio; shoving match, sculptor, n. chiseler, carver, stonecarver; sculptress; woodcarver, whittler; framer, forger, shaper, fashioner, designer, artist; worker in marble, worker in stone, worker in bronze, worker in clay, sculpture, n. 1. statuary, sculpturing, plastic art; stone cutting; wood carving, xylography; scrimshaw.
2. figure, figurine, statue, statuette, bust, Obs. monument; marble, bronze; carving; figurehead.
-v. 3. sculp, sculpt, chisel, cut, carve, tool, block out, rough-hew; shape, fashion, form, model, figure, cast.
scum, n. 1. film, covering, sheet, layer; spume,
foam, froth.
2. dregs, lees, settlings, deposit; offscourings, remains, leftovers; remainder, residue, residuum; scoria, dross, recrement, slag; refuse, waste, garbage, discarded matter.
3. rabble, riffraff, canaille, doggery, trash, ragtag and bobtail, flotsam and jetsam, dregs of society, Inf. the great unwashed.
scurrility, n. 1. abusiveness, blackguardism, pro faneness, scurrilousness; vulgarity, vulgarness, obsceneness, lewdness, salaciousness; grossness, rankness, vileness, foulness, filthiness, nastiness, SI. raunchiness; indecency, immorality, shamelessness, immodesty, impudicity, indelicacy.
2. vituperation, revilement, assailment, belaboring; invective, railing, upbraiding, objurgation, contumely, berating, scolding, tongue-lashing; diatribe, tirade, philippic; derision, scorn, scoff, jeer, gibe, sneer, mockery, ridicule.
3. vulgarism, obscenity, salacity; filth, dirt, smut; ribaldry, billingsgate, profanity, double entendre, Archaic. bawdry; curse word, swearword, oath, dirty word, four-letter word, U.S. Inf. cuss,

scurrilous, adj. 1. vituperative, contumelious, objurgatory, objurgative; abusive, outrageous, affronting, insulting, Archaic, affrontive; thersitical, blackguardly, profane, foul-mouthed, Fescennine, Obs. blackguard, Archaic, scurrile; vulgar, obscene, lewd, salacious, pornographic; gross, rank, vile, foul, filthy, dirty, smutty, nasty, scatologic, scatological, Sl. raunchy; indecent, broad, shameless, immodest, indelicate. 2. ribald, risqud, off-color, Inf. blue; buffoonish, roguish, knavish, waggish; derisive, scornful, mocking, ridiculing, irreverent,

scurry, v. 1. hurry, hasten, make haste, race, speed, hustle, post, rush, scramble, move swiftly or quickly, step lively, double-time, Inf. hump it or hump, Sl. step on it, Sl. hop to it, Sl. get cracking, Sl. get the lead out, Sl. get a move on, Sl. stir one's stumps; run, dash, dart, bolt, tear; sprint, fly, flit, whiz, whisk; zoom, zip, career, rip, scour, scud, scorch, Chiefly Brit, hare, Inf clip, Inf barrel; scoot, scamper, trip.