billingsgate

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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

Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate.

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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.

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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.

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Turmoil and billingsgate slang were unknown in the halls of legislation.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll