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Definition of Scurrilously
1. Adverb. In a scurrilously manner. "One paper scurrilously described how Edward was neglecting a bereaved mother to dance attendance on Wally"
Definition of Scurrilously
1. Adverb. In a scurrilous manner. ¹
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Definition of Scurrilously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scurrilously
Literary usage of Scurrilously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The embittered exiles who flocked here from 1790 on were doubly obnoxious to the
Federalists; both as scurrilously offensive journalists, oftentimes, ..."
2. Spectator (The)by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1836)
"I must confess, I treated you very scurrilously Mien you first sent me hither ;
but you have de- ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1898)
"of his editorship he was scurrilously known as ' Dr. Slop,' and was the subject
of several satires, of which ' A Slap at Slop ' (1820) ran through four ..."
4. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"Socrates (a good man, if a meere morall man may be termed so) beeing scurrilously
by Aristophanes the poet derided ..."
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