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Scurrility   Listen
noun
Scurrility  n.  
1.
The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity. "Your reasons... have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without scurrility."
2.
That which is scurrile or scurrilous; gross or obscene language; low buffoonery; vulgar abuse. "Interrupting prayers and sermons with clamor and scurrility."
Synonyms: Scurrilousness; abuse; insolence; vulgarity; indecency.





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"Scurrility" Quotes from Famous Books



... Spanish fanaticism ordained that the Cagots (lepers) of the Pyrenees should enter the churches in a stooping attitude], but to exclude from it altogether, and for ever. Briefly, then, for this licensed scurrility, in the first place; and, in the second, for this foul indignity of a spiteful exclusion from a right four times secured by treaty, it is that the Chinese are facing the unhappy issues ...
— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 - With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg • Thomas de Quincey


Words linked to "Scurrility" :   insult, scurrilous, abuse, contumely, revilement, vilification


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