scurrility
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Two newspapers, the Nugget and the Epitaph, blared frontier scurrility at each other.
From Time Magazine Archive
Against his enemies, or his imagined enemies, he was capable, in Ollard's words, of "scurrility verging at times on the hysterical."
From Time Magazine Archive
Targets: Soviet sentimentalism, windbaggery on Capitol Hill, the dollar chase in Big Business, journalistic scurrility on a big picture magazine.
From Time Magazine Archive
His successor, too, resigned under a barrage of anonymous scurrility.
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They soared above the acrimonious scurrility of venal party spirit.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
That’s a long list of animosities, scurrilities, grudges and indictments.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2020
Someone has been in this motel room all night, strewing scurrilities.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2019
And then the deputation passed again in its motley gear through the swarming streets of buffoons, through the avenue of scurrilities, to renew its hypocritical protestations before the throne of the Senator.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
A ridiculer then is the best champion to meet another ridiculer; their scurrilities magically undo each other.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
On the other hand, the gentle Hervey was quite incapable of writing the violent abuse, the bitter personal scurrilities, which disgraced Toplady's pen.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey
