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Scurrilous is the third studio album by Canadian progressive metal band Protest the Hero . It was released on March 22, 2011 on Vagrant Records in the US and Underground Operations in Canada. The word scurrilous is defined as "vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a person English) given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed 2 (context of language English) coarse, vulgar, abusive, or slanderous
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a scurrilous rumour formal (= a damaging and false rumour ) ▪ Journalists spread scurrilous rumours about the school. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A mixture of technical facts and utterly scurrilous gossip and dirt if ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. expressing offensive reproach [syn: abusive , insulting , opprobrious , scornful ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scurrilous \Scur"ril*ous\, a. [See Scurrile.] Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow. Containing low indecency or abuse; mean; foul; vile; obscenely ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"using such language as only the licence of a buffoon can warrant" [Johnson], 1570s, from scurrile "coarsely joking" (c.1500, implied in scurrility ), from Latin scurrilis "buffoonlike," from scurra "fashionable city idler, man-about-town," later "buffoon." ...
Usage examples of scurrilous.
Dragoneer, you had been made aware of the scurrilous rumors that had been broadcast concerning my client, the right honorable Porteous Glaves, of Aubinas.
The new recruits repeated it, chanting in marching rhythm with the verbs made scurrilous and Scapula as much their target as the man they marched to kill.
Teres smiled mischievously and began to hum disjointedly a scurrilous ballad popular among the troops, freely translating bits of verse to suit her spirit.
But as anyone not blindly hostile to the very concept of herohood must acknowledge, my version had the ring of authentic mythopoeia, hers the clatter of mere scurrilous iconoclasm.
But all of that still didn't tarnish Hobart Quennel's unimpeachable Americanism, misguided as you might think it, or the fact that even the most scurrilous attacks on him had never been able to attach him adhesively to any subversive faction or foreign-controlled activity.
In the course of it, he mentioned that the administration in Fulda had made several arrests in connection with an outbreak of scurrilous pamphlets, commented that he had refused to authorize the use of judicial torture in the case, and added that, by the way, the pamphlets had been produced on a very ingenious down-time designed and manufactured duplicating machine marketed by a Herr Vignelli from Bozen.
The conversation became general, touching on husbands and wives and children and tenure and an exchange of scurrilous anecdotes about the fecklessness of former colleagues.
Scurrilous attack ads from the Democratic National Committee are gleefully replayed by the major networks and pointedly endorsed.
It was a scurrilous tactic, an open smear campaign--but it worked.
Another scurrilous pamphlet, entitled 'A Word Without Doors,' was also aimed at him.