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

On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Their weapons were “loathsome billingsgate and brutality,” and “sublime bathos.”

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette