scurrility
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Two newspapers, the Nugget and the Epitaph, blared frontier scurrility at each other.
From Time Magazine Archive
Targets: Soviet sentimentalism, windbaggery on Capitol Hill, the dollar chase in Big Business, journalistic scurrility on a big picture magazine.
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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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His successor, too, resigned under a barrage of anonymous scurrility.
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They exemplify every variety of sentiment and taste, from lofty pathos and dignified eulogy to coarse buffoonery and the vilest scurrility.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
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
Dull Catholic lampoons and Puritan scurrilities did not pass thus unnoticed.
From Spenser by R. W. (Richard William) Church
The licensing system continued in force, but was not made much use of, although the scurrilities of the press roused the Parliament every now and then into spasmodic efforts of repression.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
On the other hand, the gentle Hervey was quite incapable of writing the violent abuse, the bitter personal scurrilities, which disgraced Toplady's pen.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey
