单词 | scurrilous |
释义 | scurrilous/ˈskʌrɪləs /adjective 1Making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of damaging their reputation: a scurrilous attack on his integrity...
Synonyms abusive, vituperative, derogatory, disparaging, denigratory, pejorative, deprecatory, insulting, offensive, defamatory, slanderous, libellous, scandalous, opprobrious, vitriolic, venomous; unfounded, ill-founded, groundless, baseless, unsubstantiated, unwarranted, unsupported, insupportable, uncorroborated, unjustified, unjustifiable informal bitchy rare contumelious, calumnious, calumniatory, aspersive, invective 1.1Humorously insulting: a very funny collection of bawdy and scurrilous writings...
Derivativesscurrilously
scurrilousness
OriginLate 16th century: from French scurrile or Latin scurrilus (from scurra 'buffoon') + -ous.
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