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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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