scurrile

  • 31scurril — adjective see scurrile …

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  • 32scurrility — /skeuh ril i tee/, n., pl. scurrilities for 2. 1. a scurrilous quality or condition. 2. a scurrilous remark or attack. [1500 10; < L scurrilitas. See SCURRILE, ITY] Syn. 2. vituperation, abuse, vilification, invective; indecency, vulgarity. * * * …

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  • 33scurrilous — scurrilously, adv. scurrilousness, n. /skerr euh leuhs, skur /, adj. 1. grossly or obscenely abusive: a scurrilous attack on the mayor. 2. characterized by or using low buffoonery; coarsely jocular or derisive: a scurrilous jest. [1570 80;&#8230; …

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  • 34scurrilous — adjective /ˈskɜɹələs,ˈskʌɹələs/ a) given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul mouthed b) coarse, vulgar, abusive, or slanderous See Also: scurrile …

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  • 35libelous — li·bel·ous also li·bel·lous / lī bə ləs/ adj: constituting or including libel a libelous magazine article Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. libelous …

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  • 36calumnious — I adjective abusive, blackening, calumniatory, castigatory, caustic, censorious, comminatory, compromising, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, criminatory, criminosus, damaging, damnatory, decrying, defamatory, denigratory, denunciatory,&#8230; …

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  • 37salacious — I adjective bawdy, carnal, coarse, concupiscent, corrupt, debauched, depraved, dirty, dissolute, erotic, Fescennine, filthy, foul, free, goatish, gross, immoral, impure, incontinent, indecent, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous,&#8230; …

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  • 38scurrilous — I adjective abusive, coarse, contumeliosus, disgusting, disrespectful, foul, gross, indecent, indelicate, insulting, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, licentious, low, mean, obscene, offensive, opprobrious, probrosus, ribald, risque, salacious,&#8230; …

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  • 39bouffon — bouffon, onne [ bufɔ̃, ɔn ] n. m. et adj. • 1530; it. buffone, de buffa « plaisanterie », du rad. onomat. buff « gonflement des joues » I ♦ N. m. 1 ♦ Anciennt Personnage de théâtre dont le rôle était de faire rire. ⇒ comique; baladin, clown,&#8230; …

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  • 40скурильность — и, ж. scurrile adj. Непристойность, непристойная шутка. Делал последние обходы по моим милым эстампным магазинам за скурильностями! К. А. Сомов А. П. Остроумовой. // С. 69. Александр Бенуа заразил ее &LT;графику&GT; скурильностью, лукавой улыбкой …

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