Or obscenity or foolish talking or scurrility, which is to no purpose: but rather giving of thanks. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 56: Ephesians The Challoner Revision] Reference
Hence the slang and scurrility which issued from the lips of the serious Professor, and hence also the weighty words and grave statements which fell from the careless student. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain of the Polestar] Reference
"scurrility," i.e. a kind of levity resulting from lack of reason, which is unable not only to bridle the speech, but also to restrain outward behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Nor was the contest of scurrility entirely one-sided. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
He had lately turned the marriage bed into a field of scurrility and seaminess. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Perge, good Master Holofernes, perge; so it shall please you to abrogate scurrility. From Wordnik.com. [Love’s Labour ’s Lost] Reference
There is an innocency in his very coarseness, and a brisk, bright good-nature chirps in his very scurrility. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
But these instances are too rare to warrant the slanders and scurrility that historians have heaped upon them. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania in the Middle Ages] Reference
Not that scurrility and the basest of personalities from Mr O'Connell are either novelties, or difficult to bear. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Nor does he try to justify his abandonment of all scholarly disinterest, or the occasional scurrility of his tone. From Wordnik.com. [In Quest of Jesus] Reference
I expect I must, in view of Cosh's own scurrility, commend the editors for their admirable restraint. posted by Dr. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
Inasmuch as the Blaine-Cleveland campaign was essentially a campaign of scurrility, this touch was loudly applauded. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
And yet, the next time you tune into Limbaugh's censorious circus of insensitive scurrility, give him a kind thought. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: Rush Limbaugh: Icon of Anti-Morality] Reference
Just as in the case of the other gods there is hardly one that has not been reviled, or escaped the scurrility of ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
The Comedian cannot pay heed to such fine distinctions, but belabours the whole tribe with indiscriminate raillery and scurrility. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
My predecessor did not remark their scurrility: he seems, on the contrary, rather to commend them for respectability in this point. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
His personality and scurrility were so indiscriminating and excessive that he was perhaps at this time the most unpopular member of the House. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference
We can cheer the fact that these days, newspapers, TV networks, politicians and parties that traffic in scurrility imperil only their own reputations. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of Political Insults] Reference
And therefore an impertinent jeerer makes the whole company seem ill-natured and abusive, as being pleased with and consenting to the scurrility of the jeer. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Hence a gloss on Eph. 5: 4, "Or foolish talking or scurrility," says that "fools call this geniality -- i.e. jocularity, because it is wont to raise a laugh.". From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.”. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write Conversationally | Write to Done] Reference
The brethren thrilled at the well-understood allusion to the speaker's abiding-place, while the outsiders, scenting a veiled scurrility, craned to listen and to watch. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
He possessed a wonderful dignity of elocution, with an agreeable mixture of wit and pleasantry, which was perfectly genteel, and without the smallest tincture of scurrility. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
Indeed, as we have seen, he has struck hastily in many directions; but, save in his years of indiscretion, he has scarcely ever been guilty of anything approaching scurrility. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
They must be sorely hurt, to be reduced to such scurrility. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
It is quite as hopeless to fight Christianity with scurrility. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference
No laws of classification are so false as those which originate in human scurrility. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference
As a sample of their scurrility W. W.lther quotes the following from a book written by Duke. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church] Reference
As might be expected from Brackenridge's management, the magazine was full of wit and scurrility. From Wordnik.com. [The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850] Reference
A half-tipsy man and a nagging woman running over every scale of scurrility and striking every note of ingenious malice. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
Liddle provokes to the brink of apoplexy, but he rarely conceals his views in insidious campaigns of rumour and scurrility. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Chancellor in the most personal terms harangued against Fox, and concluded with saying that "he despised his scurrility as much as his adulation and recantation.". From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
It has been observed, that Philips partiality for drinking and dancing, his drollery, and a dash of scurrility in his character, endeared him especially to the Thessalians. From Wordnik.com. [The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes] Reference
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