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scurrility

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scur·ril·i·ty  (sk-rl-t)
n. pl. scur·ril·i·ties
1. The quality of being vulgar, coarse, or abusive.
2. A vulgar, coarse, or abusive remark or passage.
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Noun1.scurrility - foul-mouthed or obscene abuse
billingsgate
contumely, insult, revilement, vilification, abuse - a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team"
Translations
scurrility [skʌˈrɪlɪtɪ] N → lo difamatorio, lo calumnioso
scurrility
n (= abusiveness) → Ehrenrührigkeit f; (of person) → verleumderische Art; (= abusive remark) → Verleumdung f, → Verunglimpfung f; (= indecency) → Zotigkeit f, → Unflätigkeit f; (= indecent remark) → zotige or unflätige Bemerkung
scurrility [skəˈrɪlɪtɪ] n (frm) → scurrilità
scurrility [skəˈrɪlɪtɪ] n (frm) → scurrilità


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Indeed, though Indians are generally very lofty, rhetorical, and figurative in their language at all great talks, and high ceremonials, yet, if trappers and traders may be believed, they are the most unsavory vagabonds in their ordinary colloquies; they make no hesitation to call a spade a spade; and when they once undertake to call hard names, the famous pot and kettle, of vituperating memory, are not to be compared with them for scurrility of epithet.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
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