Sample Sentences forscurrilous (auto-selected)
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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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That said, at a luncheon a few months ago he was regaling the table with an utterly scurrilous story about Fred Astaire which I don't feel can possibly be true.† (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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Satan dropped it there, I take it, intending a scurrilous jest against your reverence.† (source)
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Musta heard all those scurrilous rumors circulated by the fascist press.† (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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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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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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I signed this letter Yours sincerely, and, while licking the envelope flap, wondered whether I'd spelled scurrilous correctly.† (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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Now, many of our printers make no scruple of gratifying the malice of individuals by false accusations of the fairest characters among ourselves, augmenting animosity even to the producing of duels; and are, moreover, so indiscreet as to print scurrilous reflections on the government of neighboring states, and even on the conduct of our best national allies, which may be attended with the most pernicious consequences.† (source)
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"Scurrilous," I say, correcting him.† (source)
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