scurrility

• “Or obscenity or foolish talking or scurrility, which is to no purpose: but rather giving of thanks.”

  The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 56: Ephesians The Challoner Revision

• “Even from the eutrapelia which might signify a bon-mot, literally, and which certainly is not "scurrility," unless the apostle was ironical, reflecting on jokes with heathen considered”

  ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus

• “How, that is to say, can we account for what Terry Eagleton, in The Function of Criticism, calls the "scurrility" and "sectarian virulence" (37) of the Quarterly and the Edinburgh Reviews?”

  Paranoid Politics: Shelley and the _Quarterly Review_

• “Hence the slang and scurrility which issued from the lips of the serious Professor, and hence also the weighty words and grave statements which fell from the careless student.”

  The Captain of the Polestar and other Tales

• “scurrility," i.e. a kind of levity resulting from lack of reason, which is unable not only to bridle the speech, but also to restrain outward behavior.”

  Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province

• “Second, and perhaps more importantly, it is we the voters who will be to blame if we succumb to the scurrility of that which is being foisted upon us by the campaign should the Republicans take the top two offices.”

  The Huffington Post: Elected Officials Reflect the Electorate

• ““Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.””

  How to Write Conversationally | Write to Done

• “And yet, the next time you tune into Limbaugh's censorious circus of insensitive scurrility, give him a kind thought.”

  Deepak Chopra: Rush Limbaugh: Icon of Anti-Morality

• “We can cheer the fact that these days, newspapers, TV networks, politicians and parties that traffic in scurrility imperil only their own reputations.”

  The Wall Street Journal: In Praise of Political Insults

• “Comitas is a virtue between rusticity and scurrility, two extremes, as affability is between flattery and contention, it must not exceed; but be still accompanied with that [2181] ἀβλάβεια or innocency, quae nemini nocet, omnem injuriae, oblationem abhorrens, hurts no man, abhors all offer of injury.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

Show 10 more examples...