billingsgate

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Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate.

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Mrs. Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting.

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In the city whose name has been a synonym for social war and political billingsgate, Champion Deneen warred upon Robert E. Crowe, the State's attorney of Leopold-Loeb fame and Mayor Thompson's entourage.

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Last week they felt no shame in engaging in an exchange of diplomatic billingsgate.

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His prose is as lyrical as his verse, and his praise and blame both in excess—dithyrambic laudation or affluent billingsgate.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)