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scurrilous, a.|ˈskʌrɪləs|
Also 6 skurulous, 7 scurulous, scurrillous.
[f. scurrile a. + -ous.]
‘Using such language as only the licence of a buffoon can warrant’ (J.); characterized by coarseness or indecency of language, esp. in jesting and invective; coarsely opprobrious or jocular.
1576Gascoigne Needles Eye Wks. 1910 II. 419 What shall we thinke of skurulous, deceyptfull, byting, slanderous..wordes? 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. Ded. §7 The scurrilous and more then Satyricall immodestie of Martinisme. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 215 Forewarne him, that he vse no scurrilous words in's tunes. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxi. 110 Sometimes a scurrilous Jester, as Hyperbolus. 1716Addison Freeholder No. 23 ⁋1 They are grown scurrilous upon the Royal family. 1828Macaulay Ess., Hallam (1851) I. 56 They might be violent in innovation and scurrilous in controversy. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §2. 359 The old scurrilous ballads were heard again in the streets.
Hence ˈscurrilously adv., in a scurrilous manner; † after the manner of a buffoon. Also ˈscurrilousness.
1597Beard God's Judgem. ii. xxxvi. (1631) 431 Such as shamed not as soone as they had glutted their..heads with wine, to fall scurrilously a dauncing. 1666Pepys Diary 17 Oct., Heard the Duke discourse, which he did mighty scurrilously, of the French. 1727Bailey vol. II, Scurrilousness, scandalous Language, saucy Drollery, Buffoonry. 1789W. Belsham Ess. (1799) II. 369 He has been..scurrilously reviled as the genuine successor and counterpart of..Hugh Peters. |