billingsgate
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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic 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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Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate.
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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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I have no doubt that, if it could have been interpreted, it would have been proven the rankest and most voluble billingsgate ever uttered.
From Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs by Fuertes, Louis Agassiz
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.