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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Baggs' own opposition to the war earned him a barrage of billingsgate from hawks�who in turn received a rubber-stamp reply: "This is not a simple life, my friend, and there are no simple answers."

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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