billingsgate

Example Sentences

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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the city whose name has been a synonym for social war and political billingsgate, Champion Deneen warred upon Robert E. Crowe, the State's attorney of Leopold-Loeb fame and Mayor Thompson's entourage.

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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.

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And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.

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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