scurrility
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Against his enemies, or his imagined enemies, he was capable, in Ollard's words, of "scurrility verging at times on the hysterical."
From Time Magazine Archive
His successor, too, resigned under a barrage of anonymous scurrility.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two newspapers, the Nugget and the Epitaph, blared frontier scurrility at each other.
From Time Magazine Archive
Targets: Soviet sentimentalism, windbaggery on Capitol Hill, the dollar chase in Big Business, journalistic scurrility on a big picture magazine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Complaints of his flippancy, his persiflage, his ridicule, his scurrility, his etc., came, and still come, from the enemy, and show that his blows told and tell.
From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by G. W. (George William) Foote
That’s a long list of animosities, scurrilities, grudges and indictments.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2020
Someone has been in this motel room all night, strewing scurrilities.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2019
The breath was scarcely out of her body, when a flood of cowardly scurrilities was poured from the gutter press.
From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Horace Wyndham
I suppose the next shameful practice of ours they naturalize will be the personal scurrilities in the newspapers, especially on young and handsome women, in which we certainly are originals!
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole
They are full of trifling, and are more loaded than those of any other comedy of Plautus, with quaint conceits, the quibbling witticisms, and the scurrilities of slaves.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
