scurrilous
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But Prime Minister Keir Starmer vehemently denied the accusations in parliament as "a red herring" and "completely scurrilous".
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
“This civil lawsuit based upon 30-plus-year-old allegations is filled with scurrilous lies, exaggerations and misrepresentations regarding Linda McMahon,” she said.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
That’s an understandable impulse—especially since Elon Musk has restored the accounts of scurrilous wrongdoers who’d previously broken Twitter rules, while other social media giants, like Facebook and Instagram, are ill-advisedly relaxing their content-moderation standards.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2024
Ms Merrick, an author of the PSNI's whistle blowing policy, found herself the subject of "scurrilous and unfounded" allegations after she alerted her boss to concerns around a fellow officer's behaviour.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2023
Poetry and drama were deeply involved in networks of patronage: praise-poems, sucky-up dedications, scurrilous broadsides, and vicious “flytings” of one’s rivals.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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