billingsgate

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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.

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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.

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There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.

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The prolongation of the billingsgate in the contest between Cleon and the sausage-seller grows wearisome to modern taste; but the portrait of the Demagogue is for all time.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright