scurrile

American  

[skur-il, -ahyl, skuhr-] / ˈskɜr ɪl, -aɪl, ˈskʌr- /

adjective

Archaic.

1. scurrilous.

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Etymology

Origin of scurrile

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

Example Sentences

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

"Peace with thy scurrile jests!" answered Edith, colouring deeply.

From The Talisman by Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Davies, Randall

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 Arnold, Isacc Newton

Those lips had certainly never parted to laugh at or to utter a scurrile jest.

From L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Heyse, Paul