billingsgate

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

On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.

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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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Their weapons were “loathsome billingsgate and brutality,” and “sublime bathos.”

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette