How To Use Scurrilous In A Sentence

  • We still have this need to balance the rehabilitation of offenders and the damage to people by scurrilous allegations.
  • Ours might be a rough old trade, sometimes scurrilous and always noisy. The Sun
  • Asked to rubbish this scurrilous piece of scuttlebutt BT has sheepishly acknowledged that it is true.
  • The work was widely attacked as blasphemous and scurrilous, occasionally praised as blunt and plain; its apparent flippancy was certainly intended to be provocative, and long remained so.
  • Privately, one campaign official says they were aware of several of the more scurrilous rumors about Palin making the rounds of the blogosphere, although the official declined to "dignify" them with any comment. What McCain Didn't Know About Sarah Palin
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  • There was one scurrilous edition that teachers swiftly banned. Times, Sunday Times
  • Everyone loved how we deflected their thoughts from the scurrilous rumors of a government-instigated famine in the Ukraine with a veritable cornucopia of terpsichorean appetizers! Diary of a Bolshoi Potato Dancer
  • The trouble is that this Parliament has so many parliamentarians with a rather scurrilous record of consistency on these matters.
  • He described the article as a scurrilous attack on the personal character of a judge, which may constitute a contempt of court.
  • I agree absolutely, that Ritter et al were quite scurrilously disparaged (I remember that Ritter's sanity was called into question at one point).
  • It doesn't matter how awful the accusation is, it doesn't matter how scurrilous and unfounded it is.
  • These scurrilous and totally unfounded allegations will be proven false in a court room.
  • It is a repetitious and tedious work, a mixture of scholarship and scurrilous invective, but Milton himself was well satisfied with it.
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  • What had I done to deserve such scurrilous attacks? Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
  • This he did not say merely out of vanity and arrogance, or that he were willing, without any advantage, to offend the nobility; but the people always delighting in affronts and scurrilous contumelies against the senate, making boldness of speech their measure of greatness of spirit, continually encouraged him in it, and strengthened his inclination not to spare persons of repute, so he might gratify the multitude. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
  • It is time for some more scurrilous gossip. Times, Sunday Times
  • | Reply | Permalink ac 360 has been good lately. just ignore gloria borger. two nights ago he had on peter bergen (cnn senior security analyst) to ocntradict the "silver bulletness" of the surge. last night he had joe klein and david gergen talk about the timeline gaffe of mccain. joe klein opined further that mccain's scurrilous remarks about obama was a first for a presidential candidate. CBS Sidesteps Questions About Editing Of McCain Interview
  • They have accepted hearsay, endorsed scurrilous attacks, and walked away from their responsibilities as pastoral shepherds and teachers.
  • And we are more apt to be offended with a joke than a plain and scurrilous abuse; for we see the latter often slip from a man unwittingly in passion, but consider the former as a thing voluntary, proceeding from malice and ill-nature; and therefore we are generally more offended at a sharp jeerer than a whistling snarler. Essays and Miscellanies
  • A patrician named Michel Steno, having behaved indecently to some of the women assembled at the great civic banquet given by the doge, was kicked out of the house by order of the doge, and in revenge wrote some scurrilous lines against the dogaressa. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
  • This remains a balanced view which answers the many scurrilous attacks by academics and popular writers out to debunk.
  • His acting is so total that he totals every ordinary part; only his own one-man squibs and diatribes, envenomed caricatures, and scurrilous jibes can contain his rant.
  • There appears to be no evidence to support any of these scurrilous allegations. Times, Sunday Times
  • Our Charlie proved the most sought-after subject on the web after scurrilous allegations prompted a fact-starved UK public to scour the Net for tasty titbits.
  • They have accepted hearsay, endorsed scurrilous attacks, and walked away from their responsibilities as pastoral shepherds and teachers.
  • This chitchat - bitchy but accepting, faintly scurrilous but jovial - was yet another example of Hollywood wishfulness.
  • The further matter, that of being scurrilous and spreading speculation, is a matter for voyeurs, not Ministers.
  • But the most scurrilous attack came during the height of last summer's gas price boom.
  • The otherwise staid stock market publication wallowed in scurrilous drivel about Obama's communist father ( "Like Father, Like Son"), the candidate's ties to Jim Wallis, the "Bolshevist" publisher of the progressive Christian magazine Sojourners, and the fact that favorable editorials on Obama's "transformative candidacy" were emanating from such publications as the communist People's World Weekly. Where Are the Slander Merchants Taking Us?
  • That's an attitude that really resonates with the LGBT community, which has had to face down scurrilous attacks for years.
  • There is a scurrilous rumour that Charlie will welch on his bet by substituting miniatures for the 70 cl bottles he owes.
  • I don't attract a clientele of vagabonds and rogues and scurrilous types with evil motives.
  • In revenge, Steno placarded the doge's chair with some scurrilous verses upon the young dogaressa, and Faliero referred the matter to "the Forty. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
  • Since movies need conflict, they find themselves squarely in the crosshairs of one Sir Alistair Dormandy (Kenneth Branagh), a priggishly authoritarian government official, who vows to remove this scurrilous influence from the public airwaves, one way or another. Marshall Fine: Huff Post Review: Pirate Radio plays the hits - and misses
  • The editor avoided a prison sentence for'personal scurrilous abuse of a judge' only because of his abject apology. Times, Sunday Times
  • The hoodlums defiled the church with their scurrilous writing.
  • What had I done to deserve such scurrilous attacks? Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
  • Some are scurrilously unrepeatable, even virulently nasty, fit only for the twilight gossiping hours in the Ubiquitous Chip.
  • To his horror, those who trusted Beecher implicitly insisted upon a full airing of the scurrilous charges, confident that their shepherd would be absolved and his libeler humiliated. Darwin in the New World
  • one paper scurrilously described how Edward was neglecting a bereaved mother to dance attendance on Wally
  • Those claims were both hypothetical and injudicious and could hinder police investigations when ensued by the ranting claims and scurrilous allegations by a small number of egocentric politicians.
  • Alongside its class snobbery and scurrilous hilarity this poem also argues that truth cannot reside in a periodical publication: "Truth," Peter declaims, "Lifts her fair head, and looks with brow sublime/On all the fading pageantries of time" (Works 271) and especially on a magazine full of puffery, interest, and sham learning. 'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s
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  • He also asserts, scurrilously, that officials helped Celtic.
  • There is a fine judgement line in comedy between the scurrilously funny and the offensive.
  • When Irving turns to Churchill as Prime Minister in 1940 he levels his most scurrilous attacks.
  • I have stuck to my mandate when being scurrilously attacked by my co-executive officers and the SFU administration.
  • His taunting of the king and a scurrilous lampoon of Charles II in front of the French ambassador helps to seal his fate.
  • An old tale tells of a holy priest who visited his nephew, a scurrilous tavern-keeper.
  • With all this scurrilous scandal that is around, it is important to get it into context.
  • Ultimately any potential investors considering PETE SUMARUCK as a possible recipient of their hard-earned funds will be forced to rethink any notions of trusting such a scurrilous back-alley scallywag, slanderous liar, and unprincipled con-artist with any investments of any sort! Peter Sumaruck II
  • She was often quite scurrilous in her references to me.
  • Whether this be a mere figure of speech used by that scurrilous lampooner, or whether it indicates that the work was circulated by the religious professors of that period, I cannot determine. The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God.
  • Farther back, the 18th-century represented a zenith for anonymous slights, with scurrilous pamphlets known as "libels" keeping Pope and Swift in enemies for years. Top stories from Times Online
  • Once again the press enthusiastically publicised these scurrilous claims.
  • To speak of them in those terms that he did represents a scurrilous attack on their dedication and professionalism and I condemn it utterly.
  • Our Charlie proved the most sought-after subject on the web after scurrilous allegations prompted a fact-starved UK public to scour the Net for tasty titbits.
  • It is time for some more scurrilous gossip. Times, Sunday Times
  • The scurrilous claim is based on a survey that showed smoking levels were falling among teenagers.
  • My scurrilous expectations were fired up by a headline on a handout from the Commission.
  • There's also a tendency I think to downplay, or forget, or make light of just how scurrilous and damaging a charge this was.
  • She was often quite scurrilous in her references to me.
  • She was frightened by an utterly false accusation and an utterly scurrilous threat.
  • This message is to update you all how I'm holding up under the scurrilous, calumnious and vilipending charges against me.
  • If there is allegory here, it cuts both ways: not only must the shepherd resist the allurements of the false woman, but the bride must resist the advances of a charming but ultimately scurrilous suitor.
  • The editor avoided a prison sentence for'personal scurrilous abuse of a judge' only because of his abject apology. Times, Sunday Times
  • The tale of the most frightsome hound as ever haunted London, and of Yapper, the Scruffian as learned to speak dog, the Scruffian as tamed Whelp ... well, as near to tamed him as that snarling, slavering, scurrilous cur of a canine ever could be tamed. Archive 2010-03-01
  • The editor avoided a prison sentence for'personal scurrilous abuse of a judge' only because of his abject apology. Times, Sunday Times
  • As for the other, he is a model of wantonness and scurrilousness and a blackener of the face of hoariness; his dye acteth the foulest of lies: and the tongue of his case reciteth these lines,464 The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Chaucer's exact source is not known, but it is clear that the friar tells it to enrage the summoner on the pilgrimage, who interrupts the narrative and rejoins with a scurrilous and discreditable story about a friar.
  • No insult was deemed too scurrilous to hurl at Honeyford.
  • It is a repetitious and tedious work, a mixture of scholarship and scurrilous invective, but Milton himself was well satisfied with it.
  • As for the other, he is a model of wantonness and scurrilousness and a blackener of the face of hoariness; his dye acteth the foulest of lies: and the tongue of his case reciteth these lines, [FN#464] 'Quoth she to me,' I see thou dy'st thy hoariness; 'and I,' I do but hide it from thy sight, O thou mine ear and eye! ' Arabian nights. English
  • It is an old saying, [2161] A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword: and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrilous and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-play or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Seems he's learned to hold back the tears and keep a stiff upper lip when political operatives spread scurrilous lies and outright falsehoods.
  • The hoodlums defiled the church with their scurrilous writing.
  • Is this what was meant by the scurrilous accusations about his expenses?
  • The scurrilous attacks on the Congress were water on a duck's back to me.
  • He took no offense at being exploited in this fashion, however scandalous the work or scurrilous the part. EVERVILLE
  • There appears to be no evidence to support any of these scurrilous allegations. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ours might be a rough old trade, sometimes scurrilous and always noisy. The Sun
  • His treatment of Marxism is disgraceful, exhibiting little understanding, and he makes the scurrilous charge that Marxists are hostile to indigenous peoples because they are the modern day lumpenproletariat.

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