scurrile
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of scurrile
1560–70; < Latin scurrīlis jeering, equivalent to scurr ( a ) buffoon + -īlis -ile
Example Sentences
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She was no Pompadour or Du Barry to whom the scurrile De Mirecourt compared her.
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They made scurrile jests about his figure, as though a statesman must be necessarily a sculptor's model!
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Those lips had certainly never parted to laugh at or to utter a scurrile jest.
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The humorous organ, Punch, did not check its “scurrile jester” in the drawing of most offensive cartoons of the President of the United States; practically the whole of the aristocracy was hostile; in all Parliament but one voice was raised for the North, and that was the voice of John Bright.
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I have been accused, in the execution of this first portion of my work, of irreverent and scurrile expression towards the works which I have depreciated.
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