scurrilous
IPA: skˈɝʌɫʌs
adjective
- (of a person) Given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed.
- (of language) Coarse, vulgar, abusive, or slanderous.
- Gross, vulgar and evil.
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Examples of "scurrilous" in Sentences
- Jonathon Adler at VC, however, noted Dellinger's op-ed calling the scurrilous attack "shameful".
- And, you know, clearly, an attempt by the Obama campaign to put an end to what he calls scurrilous attacks here.
- -- The answer to that question I will borrow from the satire itself, as you choose to term your scurrilous lampoon.
- The claims were described as "scurrilous" by Lilian Foggo, his widow, and strongly denied by his colleagues on the original project.
- When the intemperate heats of the spirit break out in scurrilous and abusive language, then the troubled sea casts forth mire and dirt.
- But, before I could even get to it, he wanted to bring it up, and, clearly, an attempt by the Obama campaign to put an end to what he calls scurrilous attacks here.
- You know, he also wants to talk about it obviously politically because there's been a lot of these, what he calls scurrilous e-mails out there about him being a supposed Muslim.
- The Kerik associate, Anthony Modafferi, who served as trustee of his legal defence fund, had written what the judge described as scurrilous internet articles attacking the prosecutors.
- When a reporter from a local paper asked Jones how he felt about being called scurrilous, he responded with a phrase we can't repeat, save that it involved Gingrich, "and the horse he rode in on."
- The Lieberman -- at the time, the Lieberman campaign suggested the site was attacked by supporters of the Lamont campaign, charges that Ned Lamont called scurrilous, and the campaign demanded an apology.
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