scurrility
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Against his enemies, or his imagined enemies, he was capable, in Ollard's words, of "scurrility verging at times on the hysterical."
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His successor, too, resigned under a barrage of anonymous scurrility.
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Two newspapers, the Nugget and the Epitaph, blared frontier scurrility at each other.
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Targets: Soviet sentimentalism, windbaggery on Capitol Hill, the dollar chase in Big Business, journalistic scurrility on a big picture magazine.
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It is quite clear that in this instance there is a marked and deep interval between the outgoing of the old form of scurrility and the advent of the new.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian