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Discover Ludwig"scurrilous" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is offensive or insulting in language or behavior. For example, "The politician's scurrilous accusations damaged his opponent's reputation."
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scurrilous
adjective
Given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed
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Others exchange scurrilous messages by computer and telephone.
August 13 , 1756Chelsea, England June 1, 1815 London, England James Gillray, (born Aug. 13, 1756, Chelsea, near London, Eng. died June 1 , 1815 London), English caricaturist chiefly remembered for lively political cartoons directed against George III of England and Napoleon I. Often scurrilous and violent in his criticism, he brought a highly dramatic sense of situation and analogy to cartooning.
The tradition about his morals seems to have originated in scurrilous gossip and by a confusion between the historian and his adopted son, Augustus's minister Sallustius Crispus, a man of great wealth and luxurious tastes.
James Gillray, (born Aug. 13, 1756, Chelsea, near London, Eng. died June 1 , 1815 London), English caricaturist chiefly remembered for lively political cartoons directed against George III of England and Napoleon I. Often scurrilous and violent in his criticism, he brought a highly dramatic sense of situation and analogy to cartooning.
Degas built on his knowledge of past art, but he cleverly directed it at audiences of his own day in his choice of subject matter; his views of backstage activity are conspicuously casual and occasionally scurrilous.
But any show that features Brooker's acerbic round-up of the week's news and Carr's scurrilous one-liners will also have a hard edge.
"That's because this is a really easy sector in which to be an unappealing, scurrilous operation," he said.
"Scurrilous in what way?" "There's a guy who has some traction in our space, who runs a company – he's a convicted rapist," Michael said.
What is important now is that Charlie Hebdo has not allowed itself to be subdued by an act far more gratuitous and obscene than even the most scurrilous satirist could possibly imagine.
The case is one of four hanging over Italy's prime minister; the most scurrilous, which involves an underage prostitute, comes to trial on April 6th.Tensions between Bosnia's fractious ethnic groups mounted when the EU's representative irked Croats by quashing an election-commission ruling that had paralysed politics in the Federation (the Muslim and Croat part of the country).
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Some private Indian banks slammed the brakes on, too, including the largest, ICICI, which faced rumours of insolvency scurrilous, as it turned out, but gleefully repeated by at least one state-bank boss at the time.
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