billingsgate
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On the floor of the U. S. Senate, Dr. Butler was spattered with billingsgate.
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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
The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
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His prose is as lyrical as his verse, and his praise and blame both in excess—dithyrambic laudation or affluent billingsgate.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
