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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
scurrilous
adj : expressing offensive reproach [syn: abusive, insulting,
opprobrious, scornful]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abusive, insulting, opprobrious, scornful
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