Scurrilous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scurrilous \Scur"ril*ous\, 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.
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     2. Containing low indecency or abuse; mean; foul; vile;
        obscenely jocular; as, scurrilous language.
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              The absurd and scurrilous sermon which had very
              unwisely been honored with impeachment. --Macaulay.
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     Syn: Opprobrious; abusive; reproachful; insulting; insolent;
          offensive; gross; vile; vulgar; low; foul; foul-mouthed;
          indecent; scurrile; mean.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Scur"ril*ous*ly}, adv. --
          {Scur"ril*ous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scurrilous
       adj : expressing offensive reproach [syn: {abusive}, {insulting},
             {opprobrious}, {scornful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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