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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scurrilous
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a scurrilous rumourformal (= 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 it relates to the cars.
▪ An old tale tells of a holy priest who visited his nephew, a scurrilous tavern-keeper.
▪ As a result, Judas must be seen as something very different from the scurrilous villain of popular tradition.
▪ Delighted we darted off to Niel to report this scurrilous comment.
▪ From that time, his anti-Semitism grew so shrill and scurrilous that its virulence still makes one wince.
▪ Intense negotiation followed, then shortly afterwards legal threats from Harvard, culminating in a bizarre series of scurrilous allegations and counter-allegations.
▪ My scurrilous expectations were fired up by a headline on a handout from the Commission.
▪ Spanning several generations of schools and styles, her own recollections are a fascinating mix of knowledgeable anecdote and scurrilous gossip.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scurrilous

Scurrilous \Scur"ril*ous\, a. [See Scurrile.]

  1. 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.

  2. Containing low indecency or abuse; mean; foul; vile; obscenely jocular; as, scurrilous language.

    The absurd and scurrilous sermon which had very unwisely been honored with impeachment.
    --Macaulay.

    Syn: Opprobrious; abusive; reproachful; insulting; insolent; offensive; gross; vile; vulgar; low; foul; foul-mouthed; indecent; scurrile; mean. [1913 Webster] -- Scur"ril*ous*ly, adv. -- Scur"ril*ous*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
scurrilous

"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." According to Klein, "an Etruscan loan-word." Related: Scurrilously; scurrilousness.

Wiktionary
scurrilous

a. 1 (context of a person English) given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed 2 (context of language English) coarse, vulgar, abusive, or slanderous

WordNet
scurrilous

adj. expressing offensive reproach [syn: abusive, insulting, opprobrious, scornful]

Wikipedia
Scurrilous

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; coarse, vulgar, abusive, or slanderous."

It is the last album released under Protest the Hero's original lineup, due to the departure of drummer Moe Carlson and bassist Arif Mirabdolbaghi two years later.

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.