Definition of Scurrilousness

1. Noun. The property of being scurrilous. ¹

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Definition of Scurrilousness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scurrilousness

scurfily
scurfiness
scurfs
scurfy
scurred
scurried
scurrier
scurriers
scurries
scurril
scurrile
scurrilities
scurrility
scurrilous
scurrilously
scurrilousness (current term)
scurring
scurrit
scurry
scurrying
scurs
scurvier
scurvies
scurviest
scurvily
scurviness
scurvinesses
scurvy

Literary usage of Scurrilousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Elizabethan Playhouse, and Other Studies by William John Lawrence (1912)
"Duffet, who, with equal assiduity and scurrilousness, kept burlesquing the Dorset Gardens spectacles at Drury Lane, wrote (and printed in 1674) "an Epilogue ..."

2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1889)
"An ignoramus in Roman Catholic matters he has sufficiently shown himself to be, to say nothing of his scurrilousness, but there is no reason to suppose him ..."

3. Anthracite Coal Communities: A Study of the Demography, the Social by Peter Roberts (1904)
"Reformers, who have tried to prevent dickering and jobbery, have been subjected to such abuse and scurrilousness by foul-mouthed scoundrels as is only heard ..."

4. The Victorian Age of English Literature by Oliphant (Margaret), Francis Romano Oliphant (1892)
"His contributions to the new magazine were remarkable for their wit and power, but disgusted many by the scurrilousness of the personal attacks which ..."

5. Memorials by Roundell Palmer Selborne (1898)
"In scurrilousness, especially against the Bishops, some of their publications so far exceed anything which the Record ever wrote, in its worst days, ..."

6. Memorials by Roundell Palmer Selborne (1898)
"In scurrilousness, especially against the Bishops, some of their publications so far exceed anything which the Record ever wrote, in its worst days, ..."

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