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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
From Time Magazine Archive
The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
From Time Magazine Archive
His prose is as lyrical as his verse, and his praise and blame both in excess—dithyrambic laudation or affluent billingsgate.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
