billingsgate

Example Sentences

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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery 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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Baggs' own opposition to the war earned him a barrage of billingsgate from hawks�who in turn received a rubber-stamp reply: "This is not a simple life, my friend, and there are no simple answers."

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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 was a man of great mental endowments, and in the use of invective, often degenerating into billingsgate, he stood without a rival in American journalism.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper