billingsgate

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.

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In the city whose name has been a synonym for social war and political billingsgate, Champion Deneen warred upon Robert E. Crowe, the State's attorney of Leopold-Loeb fame and Mayor Thompson's entourage.

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The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.

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As if that he might leave no form of human utterance ungilded by his genius, Shakespeare in Thersites has given us the apotheosis of blackguardism and billingsgate.

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various