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scurrilous

adjective

1 scurrilous

Expressing offensive reproach.

synonyms: abusive, opprobrious.

Roget 934: detracting etc. v.; defamatory, detractory, derogatory, deprecatory; catty; disparaging, libelous; scurrile, scurrilous; abusive; ... show more

Roget 856: derisory, derisive; mock, mocking; sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, burlesque, Hudibrastic; scurrilous etc. (disrespectful) ... show more

Roget 929: disrespectful; aweless, irreverent; disparaging etc. 934; insulting etc. v.; supercilious, contemptuous, patronizing etc. (scornful) ... show more


Moby thesaurus: Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abusive, atrocious, back-biting, backhand, backhanded, bawdy, belittling, bitchy, blasphemous, blue, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, coarse, comminatory, contemptuous, contumelious ... show more.

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