scurrility
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Scurrility and Passion in a Controversy among Scholars, is just so much of nothing to the purpose; and, at best, a tacit confession of a weak cause.
From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor
When they have laid these Foundations of Scurrility, it is no wonder that their Superstructure is every way answerable to them.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
A few days later the pages of writers purveying the prevalent "Infidelity, Scurrility, and Indecency" are ingeniously allotted to various uses.
From Henry Fielding: a Memoir by Godden, G. M.
Scurrility, scandal, libel, baseness of all kinds formed the fuel with which it blazed, and the wit, bitter, unflinching, unsparing, which puffed the flame up, was its chief recommendation.
From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 by Wharton, Philip
