billingsgate

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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.

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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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Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate.

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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.

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It reads now like very dreary and very vulgar billingsgate.

From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford