'Scurrilous' definitions:
Definition of 'scurrilous'
From: WordNet
adjective
Expressing offensive reproach [syn: abusive, opprobrious, scurrilous]
Definition of 'Scurrilous'
From: GCIDE
- Scurrilous \Scur"ril*ous\, a. [See Scurrile.]
- 1. Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Containing low indecency or abuse; mean; foul; vile; obscenely jocular; as, scurrilous language. [1913 Webster]
- The absurd and scurrilous sermon which had very unwisely been honored with impeachment. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Opprobrious; abusive; reproachful; insulting; insolent; offensive; gross; vile; vulgar; low; foul; foul-mouthed; indecent; scurrile; mean. [1913 Webster] -- {Scur"ril*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Scur"ril*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'scurrilous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abusive,
- atrocious,
- back-biting,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- bawdy,
- belittling,
- bitchy,
- blasphemous,
- blue,
- calumniatory,
- calumnious,
- catty,
- censorious,
- coarse,
- comminatory,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- cursing,
- damnatory,
- defamatory,
- degrading,
- denunciatory,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- depreciatory,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- derogative,
- derogatory,
- detractory,
- dirty,
- disparaging,
- dysphemistic,
- epithetic,
- excommunicative,
- excommunicatory,
- Fescennine,
- foul,
- foul-mouthed,
- foul-spoken,
- foul-tongued,
- fulminatory,
- fulsome,
- gross,
- humiliating,
- imprecatory,
- impure,
- indecent,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- invective,
- ithyphallic,
- left-handed,
- lewd,
- libelous,
- licentious,
- low,
- lurid,
- maledictory,
- malign,
- minimizing,
- nasty,
- obscene,
- offending,
- offensive,
- opprobrious,
- outrageous,
- pejorative,
- pornographic,
- profane,
- Rabelaisian,
- raunchy,
- raw,
- ribald,
- ridiculing,
- risque,
- salacious,
- scabrous,
- scandalous,
- scatologic,
- scurrile,
- slanderous,
- slighting,
- smoking-room,
- smutty,
- sultry,
- truculent,
- unchaste,
- unclean,
- unprintable,
- unrepeatable,
- unspeakable,
- vile,
- vilifying,
- vituperative,
- vulgar