scurrile
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of scurrile
1560–70; < Latin scurrīlis jeering, equivalent to scurr ( a ) buffoon + -īlis -ile
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They made scurrile jests about his figure, as though a statesman must be necessarily a sculptor's model!
From Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln by Isacc Newton Arnold
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 William Harrison Ainsworth
As the barking of a dog, I securely contemn those malicious and scurrile obloquies, flouts, calumnies of railers and detractors; I scorn the rest.
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
The writers paid by the party antagonistic to the Borgia growth in power therefore slung the more scurrile accusation.
From She Stands Accused by Victor MacClure
There is nothing so high in art," he says, "but that a scurrile jest can reach at, and often the greater the work the easier it is to turn it into ridicule.
From Six Centuries of Painting by Randall Davies
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