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Using or given to using the language of low buffoonery.

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Usage examples (12)
  • Obama cannot allow such scurrilousness to go unanswered.
  • He said there was a level of viciousness and scurrilousness and a feeding frenzy.
  • As for the other, he is a model of wantonness and scurrilousness and a blackener of the face of hoariness; his dye acteth the foulest of lies: and the tongue of his case...
  • Blaming the American public for the behavior of these journalists only compounds the deceit and scurrilousness of it, particularly given that nobody is more removed and...
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