scurried
Example Sentences
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If your opponent says something scurrilous, scurril back immediately.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Heaven's blessings on us all, good Prue, was there ever poor maiden played such a scurril trick?"
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William
Ill it beseems, that such an one as thou Should lift thy voice against the Kings, and rail With scurril ribaldry, and prate of home.
From The Iliad by Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of
He had eaten and drunk heartily, and cracked many scurril Jokes while under sentence, and seemed not to care Twopence whether he was Reprieved or Not.
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus
"Pest on thee, scurril knave—be silent!" cried Richmond angrily; "failure is bad enough without thy taunts."
From Windsor Castle by Ainsworth, William Harrison
