billingsgate
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That was Firebrand Danny Cohn-Bendit, leveling a barrage of billingsgate at Herbert Marcuse, the aging Pied Piper of the New Left, who appeared at Rome's Eliseo Theater to give a lecture, "Beyond the One-Dimensional Man."
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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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While illicit lovers, escaped lunatics and stranded Passion players create bedlam, and soft soap is interspersed with billingsgate, the actress and the producer outham, in an effort to outwit, each other.
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Mrs. Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting.
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The bluejay, having exhausted his vocabulary of jay-ribaldry, screeched one last outrageous bit of billingsgate into Flint's ears, shut up his tail like a fan, and darted off, a streak of blue and gray.
From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Oemler, Marie Conway
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.