roynish

comparative more roynish · superlative most roynish · alternative roinish

1. obsoleteMangy; scabby.

   Synonyms: reef

2. Mean, paltry, vulgar or troublesome.

   My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft Your Grace was wont to laugh, is also missing.

   c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], lines 629-30

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   Their voices had a roynish sound that grated on Covenant's nerves—he had too many horrid memories of urviles—but he suppressed his discomfort

   1980, Stephen Donaldson, The Wounded Land: The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book One, Hachette UK, →ISBN

   Synonyms: contemptible