Both Uses
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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.†
Chpt 6 *
- For hours Sondelius talked, of Shanghai and epistemology and the painting of Nevinson; for hours he sang scurrilous lyrics of the Quarter, and boomed, "Yey, how I kill the rats at Kellett's wharf today!†
Chpt 33
Definitions:
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(1)
(scurrilous) offensive language or behavior -- especially unjust accusations
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)