billingsgate

Example Sentences

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There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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