scurrilous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   given to foul-mouthed abuse

   The second in command is a quite scurrilous.

2. 2
   adj

   Slanderous.

   She said Johnson was “a better man than many of your detractors will ever understand”, adding that it was “so desperately sad that you let yourself down by making a scurrilous accusation against the leader of the opposition”.

3. 3
   adj

   Unscrupulous, evil.

   We have had our address used by scurrilous crooks in the past to gain assets by fraud.

From Latin scurrīlis (“buffoon-like”) + -ous, from scurra (“a buffoon”).

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