scurrile

[ skur-il, -ahyl, skuhr- ]

adjectiveArchaic.

Origin of scurrile

1
1560–70; <Latin scurrīlis jeering, equivalent to scurr(a) buffoon + -īlis-ile

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How to use scurrile in a sentence

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

    She Stands Accused | Victor MacClure
  • His companions laughed merrily, and burst out into a scurrile song in ridicule of St. Trochu.

    The Parisians, Complete | Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • They made scurrile jests about his figure, as though a statesman must be necessarily a sculptor's model!