scurrility
Americannoun
plural
scurrilities-
a scurrilous quality or condition.
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a scurrilous remark or attack.
- Synonyms:
- vulgarity, indecency, invective, vilification, abuse, vituperation
Etymology
Origin of scurrility
From the Latin word scurrīlitās, dating back to 1500–10. See scurrile, -ity
Example Sentences
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His successor, too, resigned under a barrage of anonymous scurrility.
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
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
This, a tract designed to inquire seriously of a weighty and essential, not a trifling thing, which requires but a trifling examination; nor shall it be handled here with satire and scurrility.
From An Answer to a Question that Nobody thinks of, viz., But what if the Queen should Die? by Defoe, Daniel
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