scurrility

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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."

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His successor, too, resigned under a barrage of anonymous scurrility.

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Thus his reputation as a Scots master of scurrility and a vicious scandalmonger was earned on both sides of the Atlantic.

From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous