scurrility
Example Sentences
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An editorial in The Washington Post was later to describe it as “last-minute scurrility.”
From Washington Post
He delivered himself of this inaccurate scurrility: “Let’s remember when Hitler won his election in 1932,” he told BBC Radio London.
From Time
Both parties gradually lost their temper and published against each other letters filled with scurrility.
From Project Gutenberg
They are to be known by their modesty and precision of speech, avoiding scurrility and detraction and light words and lies and oaths.
From Project Gutenberg
Complaints of his flippancy, his persiflage, his ridicule, his scurrility, his etc., came, and still come, from the enemy, and show that his blows told and tell.
From Project Gutenberg
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