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And then there’s the scurrilously under-handed ripoff in which a grandparent gets a call saying a grandchild has been involved in an accident or some other emergency, and money must be wired immediately.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2023

He is, again, out of line with the public, which still approved of the group at a 59 percent clip last fall even after scurrilously edited videos trashed it.

From US News • Feb. 14, 2016

Buy that premise, and you're in for one scurrilously funny and seriously odd trip.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2012

Her lawyer has called the district attorney lily-livered, says prosecutors have scurrilously discredited the woman and is calling for a special prosecutor.

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2011

The Jacobites talked against him, and wrote against him, as absurdly, and almost as scurrilously, as they had long talked and written against William.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron