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
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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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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One must have read much in Luther, one should have read all of Luther, and his "billingsgate" will assume a different meaning.
From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)
