billingsgate
Example Sentences
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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the city whose name has been a synonym for social war and political billingsgate, Champion Deneen warred upon Robert E. Crowe, the State's attorney of Leopold-Loeb fame and Mayor Thompson's entourage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gleason merely settles in for an extended Honeymooners skit, swinging on the billingsgate with his wife and rolling fried-egg eyes skyward at every silence.
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Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate.
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Amid sounds of a scuffle and the continuous outpouring of billingsgate the light over the garage door flashed on suddenly and disclosed Flynn in the act of precipitating himself into the fray.
From Lady Larkspur by Nicholson, Meredith
