billingsgate
Example Sentences
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Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate.
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That was Firebrand Danny Cohn-Bendit, leveling a barrage of billingsgate at Herbert Marcuse, the aging Pied Piper of the New Left, who appeared at Rome's Eliseo Theater to give a lecture, "Beyond the One-Dimensional Man."
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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.
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He above all others commands the greatest flow of billingsgate, and is especially notorious for his arrogant treatment of his customers, and for exacting the uttermost farthing.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis
