billingsgate
Example Sentences
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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
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While illicit lovers, escaped lunatics and stranded Passion players create bedlam, and soft soap is interspersed with billingsgate, the actress and the producer outham, in an effort to outwit, each other.
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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.
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Otherwise there might have been heard something approaching to billingsgate.
From Active Service by Crane, Stephen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.