billingsgate
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gleason merely settles in for an extended Honeymooners skit, swinging on the billingsgate with his wife and rolling fried-egg eyes skyward at every silence.
From Time Magazine Archive
The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
From Time Magazine Archive
The heroic examples of Greek and Roman invective paled before the inexhaustible resources of learned billingsgate stored in the minds of the humanists and theologians.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
