scurrility

He pronounced the latter as if it were an especially vile scurrility.

Why this should have been thought evidence of scurrility was known only to Joyce 's peculiar logic.

But he shows that, since the 19th century, there has been something formalized and collusive about such scurrility.

The scurrility of the ancient orators, in many instances, is quite shocking, and exceeds all belief.

"That was an age of scurrility and calumny and sexual innuendo much like our own.

The disgust at his supposed scurrility will neither change his own beliefs nor convince anybody else to join in opposition.

"A wretched lot of nonsense, sheer scurrility.

But what was lacking in the charge of the crown was soon made up by the abominable scurrility of the judge.

Arigh repeated the scurrility with a grin.

Their appeal was to the gullibility of largely uneducated readers and to the taste for scurrility of all classes.

Dryden complained in the preface to the Fables (1700) that his critic's scurrility was unprovoked.

I asked as if I really wanted to know, and asked politely, solemnly, with no hint of scurrility or mockery.

A highpoint of the satire is the central verbal contest that again, just like in S. 1.4, distinguishes scurrility from satire.

Inasmuch as the Blaine-Cleveland campaign was essentially a campaign of scurrility, this touch was loudly applauded.

First part, on human nature, religion, devotion, scurrility, love, duties towards enemies, solitude, &c. &c.

He wielded an enormous vocabulary without pityridicule upon humiliation, insult upon sarcasm-irony, scorn, and scurrility.

"Whites of America may not think so; British Christianity does and all the scurrility of the American press won't alter the facts."

Of these, only the fourth carried his name, but he took on easily the role of polemicist, both lofty and resorting to low gibes and scurrility.

Shebbeare's writings generally are vigorous and well informed, and in scurrility go little, if at all, beyond those of the chief polemical writers of the day.

Perge, good Master Holofernes, perge, so it shall please you to abrogate scurrility.

Chris Raible, Muddy York Mud: Scandal & Scurrility in Upper Canada (1992)

On the Republican side, Philip Freneau and Benjamin Franklin Bache blasted the administration with all the scurrility at their command.

Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy.

The old William Hickey was given a plywood coffin and a Fleet Street funeral, showered with champagne and honored for 54 years of scurrility, wit and inconsequence.

Hence the slang and scurrility which issued from the lips of the serious Professor, and hence also the weighty words and grave statements which fell from the careless student.