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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
scurrilous \scur"rilous\, 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.
      1913 webster

   2. containing low indecency or abuse; mean; foul; vile;
      obscenely jocular; as, scurrilous language.
      1913 webster

            the absurd and scurrilous sermon which had very
            unwisely been honored with impeachment. --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   syn: opprobrious; abusive; reproachful; insulting; insolent;
        offensive; gross; vile; vulgar; low; foul; foul-mouthed;
        indecent; scurrile; mean.
        1913 webster -- scur"rilously, adv. --
        scur"rilousness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
scur"rilously scur"rilousness 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
scurrilous
     adj : expressing offensive reproach syn: abusive, insulting,
           opprobrious, scornful
see also:
abusive insulting opprobrious scornful 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
97 moby thesaurus words for "scurrilous":
   fescennine, rabelaisian, abusive, atrocious, back-biting, backhand,
   backhanded, bawdy, belittling, bitchy, blasphemous, blue,
   calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, coarse, comminatory,
   contemptuous, contumelious, cursing, damnatory, defamatory,
   degrading, denunciatory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory,
   derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detractory, dirty,
   disparaging, dysphemistic, epithetic, excommunicative,
   excommunicatory, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued,
   fulminatory, fulsome, gross, humiliating, imprecatory, impure,
   indecent, insolent, insulting, invective, ithyphallic, left-handed,
   lewd, libelous, licentious, low, lurid, maledictory, malign,
   minimizing, nasty, obscene, offending, offensive, opprobrious,
   outrageous, pejorative, pornographic, profane, raunchy, raw,
   ribald, ridiculing, risque, salacious, scabrous, scandalous,
   scatologic, scurrile, slanderous, slighting, smoking-room, smutty,
   sultry, truculent, unchaste, unclean, unprintable, unrepeatable,
   unspeakable, vile, vilifying, vituperative, vulgar





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