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Scurrilous

Scurrilous meaning

Given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed. | Coarse, vulgar, or abusive. | Slanderous.

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Not only is Schumer the leading Jewish American in Congress, but Jews in his home state of New York have been subjected to a series of scurrilous attacks at the hands of pro-Hamas demonstrators.

The people of Eliozu town in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, are outraged by the scurrilous allegations made by Mr. Chijioke Ihunwo against the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt.

Asked for comment, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, Steve Guest, criticized the Obama administration’s record on confronting Russia and said Mr. Biden is making a “scurrilous accusation” against Mr. Trump.

But the bench initiated a fresh suo motu contempt case against Vijay Kurle, Rashid Khan Pathan and Nilesh Ojha for making “scandalous and scurrilous” allegations against judges of the apex court.

During this time of national dialogue concerning the equality of Black Americans, you each made a conscious choice to fan the flames of hatred and division by repeating known, discredited lies and scurrilous claims.

Forget the fact that the author doesn’t have the decency to name the schools so that they could push back on this scurrilous claim.

He said, “The aim of this press conference is to defend my reputation which the Justices of the Supreme Court, whether consciously or unconsciously, subjected to scurrilous scandal, assault and unfair imputation.

Manuel contends that Malema and Ndlozi made baseless and scurrilous allegations which were intended to impugn his character.

Printing — the new and disruptive media of the age — abetted rumor mills and scurrilous political attacks on the Crown.

Senator Lamar Alexander’s observation that the evidence showed Donald Trump was indeed guilty of scurrilous actions and behavior but that it did not rise to removing him from office forever damns the Republican party with dishonor.

The haste to silence critiques of the apartheid regime of Israel and resort to scurrilous allegations of “antisemitism” comes ironically during the week when South Africa remembers the 43rd anniversary of Black Wednesday.

He might win the battle with the bureau over the pending release of a scurrilous memo concocted by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, a cudgel created to attack everyone who’s been in charge of the federal investigation of Team Trump.

HA Comm. 1.2; Birley, Marcus Aurelius, 119. The biographer relates the scurrilous (and, in the judgment of Anthony Birley, untrue) rumor that Commodus was an illegitimate child born of a union between Faustina and a gladiator.

Shakespeare is also supposed to have taken his revenge on Lucy by writing a scurrilous ballad about him.

The election of 1796 was the first partisan affair in the nation's history, and one of the more scurrilous in terms of newspaper attacks.

When he became unpopular later in life, scurrilous rumours and lampoons circulated that he was actually the son of a Ghent butcher, perhaps because Edward III was not present at the birth.