billingsgate
Example Sentences
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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.
From Time Magazine Archive
The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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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
Douglas waxed furious and poured out his "senatorial billingsgate" upon the offenders.
From Life of Stephen A. Douglas by William Gardner
