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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...
  • We still have this need to balance the rehabilitation of offenders and the damage to people by scurrilous allegations.
  • Those claims were both hypothetical and injudicious and could hinder police investigations when ensued by the ranting claims and scurrilous allegations by a small number of egocentric politicians.
  • Seems he's learned to hold back the tears and keep a stiff upper lip when political operatives spread scurrilous lies and outright falsehoods.

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...
  • No insult was deemed too scurrilous to hurl at Honeyford.
  • It is a repetitious and tedious work, a mixture of scholarship and scurrilous invective, but Milton himself was well satisfied with it.
  • This chitchat - bitchy but accepting, faintly scurrilous but jovial - was yet another example of Hollywood wishfulness.

Derivatives

scurrilously

/ˈskʌrɪləsli / adverb ...
  • I have stuck to my mandate when being scurrilously attacked by my co-executive officers and the SFU administration.
  • Some are scurrilously unrepeatable, even virulently nasty, fit only for the twilight gossiping hours in the Ubiquitous Chip.
  • He also asserts, scurrilously, that officials helped Celtic.

scurrilousness

noun ...
  • I don't understand why the press doesn't expose this sort of thing - as in hammer the facts of the matter and the scurrilousness of the ad itself until the entire country knows about it, and knows every detail.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French scurrile or Latin scurrilus (from scurra 'buffoon') + -ous.

  • This word meaning ‘spreading scandal’ is based on Latin scurrilus which comes from scurra ‘buffoon’.

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