What is "scurrility"

Usage examples of "scurrility".

This had been promoted by the example hourly ringing in their ears of vernile scurrility.

When he fled the city before he could be arrested, Luther revenged himself partly by a Catilinarian sermon, partly by composing, for circulation among his friends, some verses about Lemnius in which the scurrility and obscenity of the offending youth were well over-trumped.

These, two letters provoked a shower of rejoinders, in which, according to Cooper, misstatements were mingled with scurrility.

For two days the face of Argandeau remained a grey blur to Marvin a grey blur from which emerged soft-voiced scurrilities concerning their captors, the English Griffons, and endless references to the rabbits all of them rabbits of unrivaled beauty who had succumbed to his charm in a hundred ports.

He mentions others as doing the same thing, and then continues: "The only notice Haydn took of their scurrility and abuse was to publish lessons written in imitation of the several styles of his enemies, in which their peculiarities were so closely copied and their extraneous passages (particularly those of Bach of Hamburg) so inimitably burlesqued, that they all felt the poignancy of his musical wit, confessed its truth, and were silent.

They accuse themselves of ingratitude and malignity when any one denies a lawful satisfaction to another of indolence, of sad ness, of anger, of scurrility, of slander, and of lying, which curseful thing they thoroughly hate.

Volney, though accused of Hottentotism and ignorance, preserved in his defence, all the advantages that the scurrility of his adversary gave over him.

Herein only are the inferior sort somewhat to be blamed, that, being thus assembled, their talk is now and then such as savoureth of scurrility and ribaldry, a thing naturally incident to carters and clowns, who think themselves not to be merry and welcome if their foolish veins in this behalf be never so little restrained.