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That is a false and scurrilous accusation.
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This fellow writes in the most scurrilous newspapers; you have told me so yourself. (source)scurrilous = offensive -- especially in making unjust accusations
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I signed this letter Yours sincerely, and, while licking the envelope flap, wondered whether I'd spelled scurrilous correctly.† (source)
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He's a scurrilous dog, that man," she muttered.† (source)
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Kitsey?) it was almost like some scurrilous bit of gossip that had nothing to do with me.† (source)
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Annie sailed triumphantly through Oxford, launching a radical and scurrilous magazine and sickening her friends by getting a brilliant First in English without ever appearing to do a stroke of work.† (source)
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Musta heard all those scurrilous rumors circulated by the fascist press.† (source)
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Atlee was marched under guard to General Howe's headquarters at Bedford, where he and other prisoners were subjected to "the most scurrilous and abusive language, both from officers, soldiers, and camp-ladies, everyone ...demanding of the guard why we were taken, why we were not put to the bayonet."† (source)
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The reporter, Torsson, had cobbled together a scurrilous piece.† (source)
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Wherever did you hear such a scurrilous rumor?† (source)
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"One of those scurrilous things," it attacked starters and trainers and owners and provided gossip to be carefully read between races.† (source)
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She took his dictation with care, but because of his runaway fervor, in some haste, so it was not until she got down to the job of typing it out for the printer that she began to glimpse seething in that cauldron of historical allusions and dialectical hypotheses and religious imperatives and legal precedents and anthropological propositions the smoky, ominous presence of a single word—repeated several times—which quite baffled and confounded and frightened her, appearing as it did in this otherwise persuasively practical text, this clever polemic which voiced with breezily scurrilous mockery the sly propaganda she had half heard more than once over the Bieganski dinner table.† (source)
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They read these scurrilous rags of newspapers, and nothing will suit them but that someone in their town shall get poisoned too.† (source)
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The Marquesa, beside not having heard the scurrilous songs, was in other ways unprepared for the actress's visit.† (source)
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He told three new stories about Professor Robertshaw, all of them scurrilous and most of them untrue, on their way, and he almost coaxed Martin into cheerfulness.† (source)
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Satan dropped it there, I take it, intending a scurrilous jest against your reverence.† (source)
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