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
On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with 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
Gleason merely settles in for an extended Honeymooners skit, swinging on the billingsgate with his wife and rolling fried-egg eyes skyward at every silence.
From Time Magazine Archive
The appearance is, that her social walk was wide away from the purlieus of common mundane diabolism and billingsgate.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
