billingsgate
Example Sentences
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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their weapons were “loathsome billingsgate and brutality,” and “sublime bathos.”
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette
