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

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

There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue.

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

He never paused to weigh his words when he assailed an opponent, believing that in politics billingsgate is the gate of success.

From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Matthews, Brander