scurrility

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Two newspapers, the Nugget and the Epitaph, blared frontier scurrility at each other.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a little more than two years, a 25� magazine called Confidential, based on the proposition that millions like to wallow in scurrility, has become the biggest newsstand seller in the U.S.

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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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Targets: Soviet sentimentalism, windbaggery on Capitol Hill, the dollar chase in Big Business, journalistic scurrility on a big picture magazine.

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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 Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by Foote, G. W. (George William)