Nevertheless, with his southern ways, he comes across as unfailingly polite and erudite, even when pouring scorn in the most scabrous of terms on those who would underestimate him.
Not that his plays are the bloodiest or most scabrous.
That the red tops — as the most scabrous tabloids are known here — should cut corners was hardly a shock.
Gawker, mightiest and most scabrous of websites, died last week, aged 13.
"To this day, it remains the most scabrous indictment ever written of adulthood.
The most scabrous, sleazy bully in rock history?... Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses gives the finger to the crowd at a concert in 1992.
One of the nice things about this lewd and funny hit comedy is that it springs its wildest, most scabrous jokes from a recognizable male dilemma.
THE dynamic between Hernandez and the wealthy racist killer Wade (played by Christian Bale), who hires him to silence a witness, is class comedy of the most scabrous kind.
With a very mischievous script by Bruce Wagner, Maps breaks little new ground (Hollywood is full of needy narcissists — who knew?), but it was the best, most scabrous fun to be had here.
There had always been a needy aspect to even his most scabrous standup routines, and he was never a dangerous comic: inflammatory material was rendered essentially fireproof by those love-me eyes, that gurning grin.
