scurrility
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His successor, too, resigned under a barrage of anonymous scurrility.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two newspapers, the Nugget and the Epitaph, blared frontier scurrility at each other.
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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."
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
The contributor has already lapsed from simple fatuity into fatuity compound with scurrility.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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
I suppose the next shameful practice of ours they naturalize will be the personal scurrilities in the newspapers, especially on young and handsome women, in which we certainly are originals!
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole
Who could imagine that the writers of these scurrilities were learned men, and that their patrons were men of rank!
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
As Lord Rigglesworth writes, 'R. N. has got up your whole biography, and is fully bent on making you the theme of one of his amusing scurrilities.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
