billingsgate
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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to 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
Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Otherwise there might have been heard something approaching to billingsgate.
From Active Service by Stephen Crane
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