billingsgate

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

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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.

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The object of all this billingsgate is a devoutly religious�and highly litigious�Quaker who has never been known to fire a shot, lift his fist, or even raise his soft voice in anger.

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