Synonyms for scurrilousness
- abuse
- bad-mouthing
- berating
- billingsgate
- blame
- castigation
- censure
- contumely
- criticism
- defamation
- insults
- invective
- libel
- obloquy
- railing
- reprimand
- reproach
- revilement
- reviling
- scolding
- scurrility
- slander
- tirade
- upbraiding
- verbal abuse
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WORD ORIGIN
"using such language as only the licence of a buffoon can warrant" [Johnson], 1570s, from scurrile "coarsely joking" (c.1500, implied in scurrility), from Latin scurrilis "buffoonlike," from scurra "fashionable city idler, man-about-town," later "buffoon." According to Klein, "an Etruscan loan-word." Related: Scurrilously; scurrilousness.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR SCURRILOUSNESS
bawdiness
nounobscenitybillingsgate
nounvituperationprofaneness
nounobscenity- X-rating
- abomination
- affront
- atrocity
- bawdiness
- blight
- blueness
- coarseness
- curse
- dirtiness
- dirty name
- dirty word
- evil
- filthiness
- foulness
- four-letter word
- grossness
- immodesty
- impropriety
- impurity
- indecency
- indelicacy
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- lubricity
- offense
- outrage
- porn
- pornography
- profanity
- prurience
- salacity
- scatology
- scurrility
- scurrilousness
- sleaze
- smut
- smuttiness
- suggestiveness
- swearword
- vileness
- vulgarity
- vulgarness
- wrong
raunch
nounobscenity- X-rating
- abomination
- affront
- atrocity
- bawdiness
- blight
- blueness
- coarseness
- curse
- dirt
- dirtiness
- dirty name
- dirty word
- evil
- filth
- filthiness
- foulness
- four-letter word
- grossness
- immodesty
- impropriety
- impurity
- indecency
- indelicacy
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- lubricity
- offense
- outrage
- porn
- pornography
- profaneness
- profanity
- prurience
- ribaldry
- salacity
- scatology
- scurrility
- scurrilousness
- sleaze
- smut
- smuttiness
- suggestiveness
- swearword
- vileness
- vulgarity
- vulgarness
- wrong
raunchiness
nounobscenity- X-rating
- abomination
- affront
- atrocity
- bawdiness
- blight
- blueness
- coarseness
- curse
- dirtiness
- dirty name
- dirty word
- evil
- filthiness
- foulness
- four-letter word
- grossness
- immodesty
- impropriety
- impurity
- indecency
- indelicacy
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- lubricity
- offense
- outrage
- porn
- pornography
- profaneness
- profanity
- prurience
- salacity
- scatology
- scurrility
- scurrilousness
- sleaze
- smut
- smuttiness
- suggestiveness
- swearword
- vileness
- vulgarity
- vulgarness
- wrong
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