billingsgate
Example Sentences
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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.
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Nor is he shy about lapsing occasionally into the Yorkshire-accented billingsgate that he has perfected over the years in leading T.U.C.'s toughest negotiations�including British Ford's acceptance of unions at Dagenham during World War II.
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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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Amid sounds of a scuffle and the continuous outpouring of billingsgate the light over the garage door flashed on suddenly and disclosed Flynn in the act of precipitating himself into the fray.
From Lady Larkspur by Nicholson, Meredith