scurrilous

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
scurrilous
    adj 1: expressing offensive reproach [syn: {abusive},
           {opprobrious}, {scurrilous}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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

    

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