billingsgate
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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.
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On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.
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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic 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."
From Time Magazine Archive
He has a Shakespearean mastery of the technicalities of every art and mystery, an appalling command of billingsgate and of the language of the cuisine, and would tire Falstaff and Prince Hal with base comparisons.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
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