billingsgate

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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That was Firebrand Danny Cohn-Bendit, leveling a barrage of billingsgate at Herbert Marcuse, the aging Pied Piper of the New Left, who appeared at Rome's Eliseo Theater to give a lecture, "Beyond the One-Dimensional Man."

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As if that he might leave no form of human utterance ungilded by his genius, Shakespeare in Thersites has given us the apotheosis of blackguardism and billingsgate.

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various