scurrility
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His successor, too, resigned under a barrage of anonymous scurrility.
From Time Magazine Archive
Against his enemies, or his imagined enemies, he was capable, in Ollard's words, of "scurrility verging at times on the hysterical."
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Targets: Soviet sentimentalism, windbaggery on Capitol Hill, the dollar chase in Big Business, journalistic scurrility on a big picture magazine.
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Two newspapers, the Nugget and the Epitaph, blared frontier scurrility at each other.
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The contributor has already lapsed from simple fatuity into fatuity compound with scurrility.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
That’s a long list of animosities, scurrilities, grudges and indictments.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2020
Someone has been in this motel room all night, strewing scurrilities.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2019
In these Journals he published many scurrilities against Mr. Pope; and in a pamphlet called, The Supplement to the Profound, he used him with great virulence, and little candour.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Theophilus Cibber
If he had, he would certainly have made it the subject of some more scurrilities.
From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by John Knox Laughton
His first writings here had fallen far short of his original 'Political Progress,' and the scurrilities of his subsequent ones began evidently to do mischief.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
