scurrilous

How To Use scurrilous In A Sentence

• Farther back, the 18th-century represented a zenith for anonymous slights, with scurrilous pamphlets known as "libels" keeping Pope and Swift in enemies for years. Top stories from Times Online
• As for the other, he is a model of wantonness and scurrilousness and a blackener of the face of hoariness; his dye acteth the foulest of lies: and the tongue of his case reciteth these lines, [FN#464] 'Quoth she to me,' I see thou dy'st thy hoariness; 'and I,' I do but hide it from thy sight, O thou mine ear and eye! ' Arabian nights. English
• She was often quite scurrilous in her references to me.
• There's also a tendency I think to downplay, or forget, or make light of just how scurrilous and damaging a charge this was.
• My scurrilous expectations were fired up by a headline on a handout from the Commission.
• The scurrilous claim is based on a survey that showed smoking levels were falling among teenagers.
• It is time for some more scurrilous gossip. Times, Sunday Times
• Our Charlie proved the most sought-after subject on the web after scurrilous allegations prompted a fact-starved UK public to scour the Net for tasty titbits.
• To speak of them in those terms that he did represents a scurrilous attack on their dedication and professionalism and I condemn it utterly.
• Once again the press enthusiastically publicised these scurrilous claims.