billingsgate
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Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate.
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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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Gleason merely settles in for an extended Honeymooners skit, swinging on the billingsgate with his wife and rolling fried-egg eyes skyward at every silence.
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The object of all this billingsgate is a devoutly religious�and highly litigious�Quaker who has never been known to fire a shot, lift his fist, or even raise his soft voice in anger.
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Lodge's reply was a fair sample of the literary billingsgate of that controversial age and deserves the oblivion into which it promptly sank.
From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Baldwin, Edward Chauncey
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.