billingsgate
Example Sentences
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Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs 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
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
Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
It reads now like very dreary and very vulgar billingsgate.
From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford
