скверный

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Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic скврьнъ (skvrĭnŭ). By surface analysis, скве́рна (skvérna) +‎ -ный (-nyj).

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Adjective

скве́рный (skvérnyj) (comparative (по)скверне́е or (по)скверне́й)

  1. bad, nasty, foul
    • 1877, Иван Тургенев, “Часть первая. I”, in Новь; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., Virgin Soil, 1920:
      Он уверял, что главной причиной его демократического настроения была скверная греческая кухня, которая раздражала его печень.
      On uverjal, što glavnoj pričinoj jevo demokratičeskovo nastrojenija byla skvernaja grečeskaja kuxnja, kotoraja razdražala jevo pečenʹ.
      He used to declare that the chief cause of his democratic frame of mind was the execrable Greek cookery, which upset his liver.

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