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(adjective) using or given to coarse language / (adjective) vulgar and evil / (adjective) containing obscenities, abuse, or slander

Highlighted phrases

scurrilous
scurrility



We were just getting used to seeing Lukacs as a great modernist when he came out with a scurrilous, hysterical attack on modernism.

—p.193 Georg Lukacs's Cosmic Chutzpah (181) by Marshall Berman
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8 years, 9 months ago


During their lunches he was always wonderfully scurrilous and bad tempered about his peers

—p.20 kipps and belsey (1) by Zadie Smith
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3 years, 11 months ago


the esteemed Harvard intellectual historian was made to seem a scurrilous pinko

—p.43 An American Tale (36) missing author
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7 years, 2 months ago


the scurrility and sectarian virulence

—p.37 by Terry Eagleton
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8 years, 9 months ago