scurrile
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of scurrile
1560–70; < Latin scurrīlis jeering, equivalent to scurr ( a ) buffoon + -īlis -ile
Example Sentences
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"Pshaw, rascal," answered Cromwell, contemptuously, "keep your scurrile jests for the gibbet foot."
From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir
Beside this corpse that bears for winding sheet The stars and stripes he lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you?
From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 by Lincoln, Abraham
She was no Pompadour or Du Barry to whom the scurrile De Mirecourt compared her.
From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by d'Auvergne, Edmund B.
You know that you speak safely, fellow," rejoined Wyvil, "and you, therefore, give full license to your scurrile tongue.
From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison
Those lips had certainly never parted to laugh at or to utter a scurrile jest.
From L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Heyse, Paul
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