scurrile

[ skur-il, -ahyl, skuhr- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Archaic.

1560–70; < Latin scurrīlis jeering, equivalent to scurr ( a ) buffoon + -īlis -ile

The writers paid by the party antagonistic to the Borgia growth in power therefore slung the more scurrile accusation.

His companions laughed merrily, and burst out into a scurrile song in ridicule of St. Trochu.

They made scurrile jests about his figure, as though a statesman must be necessarily a sculptor's model!

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