billingsgate
Example Sentences
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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The prolongation of the billingsgate in the contest between Cleon and the sausage-seller grows wearisome to modern taste; but the portrait of the Demagogue is for all time.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
