billingsgate
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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bluejay, having exhausted his vocabulary of jay-ribaldry, screeched one last outrageous bit of billingsgate into Flint's ears, shut up his tail like a fan, and darted off, a streak of blue and gray.
From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler
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