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."
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
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
This, a tract designed to inquire seriously of a weighty and essential, not a trifling thing, which requires but a trifling examination; nor shall it be handled here with satire and scurrility.
From An Answer to a Question that Nobody thinks of, viz., But what if the Queen should Die? by Daniel Defoe
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
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
How dared anyone in my uncle's house—in my house—mix my name up with her detestable scurrilities?
From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
I have already touched upon the scurrilities and obscenities which were common in improvised comedy.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
