scurrility

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In a little more than two years, a 25� magazine called Confidential, based on the proposition that millions like to wallow in scurrility, has become the biggest newsstand seller in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

His successor, too, resigned under a barrage of anonymous scurrility.

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The fairest characters were blasted by it; it defamed and bespattered with its scurrility, some of the most honorable and high-minded citizens, while the artful and cowardly hypocrite himself was hidden from observation.

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William