Example Sentences

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That’s a long list of animosities, scurrilities, grudges and indictments.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2020

Someone has been in this motel room all night, strewing scurrilities.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2019

I have already touched upon the scurrilities and obscenities which were common in improvised comedy.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo

Mingled with the scurrilities of the theological brawl are passages of the noblest English ever written.

From Milton by Pattison, Mark

They are full of trifling, and are more loaded than those of any other comedy of Plautus, with quaint conceits, the quibbling witticisms, and the scurrilities of slaves.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John