billingsgate

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Mrs. Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting.

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

Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.

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

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Their weapons were “loathsome billingsgate and brutality,” and “sublime bathos.”

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette