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Definition of Scurrilous
1. Adjective. Expressing offensive reproach.
Definition of Scurrilous
1. a. Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow.
Definition of Scurrilous
1. Adjective. (context: of a person) given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of language) coarse, vulgar, abusive, or slanderous ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scurrilous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scurrilous
Literary usage of Scurrilous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts,: Including by John Heneage Jesse (1855)
"Summary of Laud's Character—Hie Education and Preferments in the Church—scurrilous
Attacks on his Birth and Parentage—His personal Appearance—Curious ..."
2. The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the by Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (1904)
"... from whence this copy is taken, is thus endorsed: "A scurrilous and very wicked
letter, being highly defamatory of the Earl of Hillsborough, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Defamation: With Forms of Pleadings by George Wingrove Cooke (1844)
"Information for singing scurrilous Songs. THE following form of criminal ...
for publishing scurrilous songs, imputing want of chastity and immoral conduct ..."
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