billingsgate
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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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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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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.
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Gleason merely settles in for an extended Honeymooners skit, swinging on the billingsgate with his wife and rolling fried-egg eyes skyward at every silence.
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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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.