billingsgate

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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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Nor is he shy about lapsing occasionally into the Yorkshire-accented billingsgate that he has perfected over the years in leading T.U.C.'s toughest negotiations�including British Ford's acceptance of unions at Dagenham during World War II.

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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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One must sometimes stand speechless before a subject, else burn his lips with blasphemy or befoul them with billingsgate.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper