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fescennine
Licentious; obscene.
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  1. Licentious; obscene.
  2. Vulgar; obscene; scurrilous
obscene
Exceptionally repugnant to the contemporary standards of decency and morality within the community; grossly obnoxious to the notions of acceptable behavior. Exceptionally repugnant to the contemporary standards of decency and morality within the community; grossly obnoxious to the notions of acceptable behavior.
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  1. Exceptionally repugnant to the contemporary standards of decency and morality within the community; grossly obnoxious to the notions of acceptable behavior. Exceptionally repugnant to the contemporary standards of decency and morality within the community; grossly obnoxious to the notions of acceptable behavior.
  2. (--- Law) Of or relating to materials that can be regulated or criminalized because their depiction of nudity, sex, or excretion is patently offensive and without artistic or scientific value.
  3. (Law) Designating or of books, films, etc. which when judged by contemporary community standards, are found to appeal to a prurient interest in sex, be patently offensive, and have no serious artistic, scientific, or social value
ribald
Characterized by or indulging in humor that is vulgar and lewd.
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  1. Characterized by or indulging in humor that is vulgar and lewd.
  2. Characterized by coarse or vulgar joking or mocking; esp., dealing with sex in a humorously earthy or direct way
indecent
Not appropriate or becoming; unseemly:
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  1. Not appropriate or becoming; unseemly:
  2. Offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty; lewd or vulgar:
  3. Of speech, that it is crude and offensive, typically in a sexual manner. Of speech, that it is crude and offensive, typically in a sexual manner.
coarse
Rough, especially to the touch:
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  1. Rough, especially to the touch:
  2. Lacking refinement, taste or delicacy;
  3. Lacking in delicacy or refinement:
vulgar
Indecent or obscene
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  1. Indecent or obscene
  2. Crudely indecent:
  3. Characterized by a lack of culture, refinement, taste, restraint, sensitivity, etc.; coarse; crude; boorish
foulmouthed
Using abusive or obscene language.
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  1. Using abusive or obscene language.
  2. Tending to use obscene or offensive language
obscene
Offensive to one's feelings, or to prevailing notions, of modesty or decency; lewd
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  1. Offensive to one's feelings, or to prevailing notions, of modesty or decency; lewd
  2. (Law) Designating or of books, films, etc. which when judged by contemporary community standards, are found to appeal to a prurient interest in sex, be patently offensive, and have no serious artistic, scientific, or social value
  3. (--- Law) Of or relating to materials that can be regulated or criminalized because their depiction of nudity, sex, or excretion is patently offensive and without artistic or scientific value.
shameless
Having no shame, no guilt nor remorse over something wrong; immodest; unable to feel disgrace
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  1. Having no shame, no guilt nor remorse over something wrong; immodest; unable to feel disgrace
  2. Having or showing no feeling of shame, modesty, or decency; brazen; impudent
  3. Marked by a lack of shame:
ribald
Characterized by coarse or vulgar joking or mocking; esp., dealing with sex in a humorously earthy or direct way
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  1. Characterized by coarse or vulgar joking or mocking; esp., dealing with sex in a humorously earthy or direct way
  2. Characterized by or indulging in humor that is vulgar and lewd.
abusive
Relating to or practicing sexual abuse.
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  1. Relating to or practicing sexual abuse.
  2. Coarse and insulting in language; scurrilous; harshly scolding
  3. Using or containing insulting or hurtful language:
contumelious
Rude in a contemptuous way; insulting and humiliating
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  1. Rude in a contemptuous way; insulting and humiliating
invective
Inveighing; using, inclined to use, or characterized by strong verbal abuse
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  1. Inveighing; using, inclined to use, or characterized by strong verbal abuse
opprobrious
(Now Rare) Deserving opprobrium; disgraceful
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  1. (Now Rare) Deserving opprobrium; disgraceful
  2. Expressing contemptuous reproach; scornful or abusive:
  3. Expressing opprobrium; abusive; disrespectful
vituperative
Using, containing, or marked by harshly critical or irate language.
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  1. Using, containing, or marked by harshly critical or irate language.
barnyard
Like or fit for a barnyard; earthy, smutty, etc.
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  1. Like or fit for a barnyard; earthy, smutty, etc.
  2. Of or pertaining to a barnyard.
  3. Coarse or indecent:
bawdy
Characteristic of a bawd; indecent or humorously coarse; lewd
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  1. Characteristic of a bawd; indecent or humorously coarse; lewd
  2. Humorously coarse; lewd or risqué:
broad
Covering a wide scope; general:
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  1. Covering a wide scope; general:
  2. Full; open:
  3. Vulgar; ribald:
coarse
Rough, especially to the touch:
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  1. Rough, especially to the touch:
  2. Lacking in delicacy or refinement:
  3. Not fine or delicate in texture, structure, form, etc.; rough; harsh
dirty
Covered or marked with dirt or an unwanted substance; unclean.
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  1. Covered or marked with dirt or an unwanted substance; unclean.
  2. Malicious or scandalous:
  3. Not bright and clear in color; somewhat dull or drab. Often used in combination:
filthy
Full of filth; disgustingly foul
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  1. Full of filth; disgustingly foul
  2. Vile; nasty:
  3. Covered or smeared with filth; disgustingly dirty.
foul
Extremely dirty or impure; disgustingly filthy
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  1. Extremely dirty or impure; disgustingly filthy
  2. Entangled or enwrapped:
  3. (--- Baseball) Outside the foul lines:
gross
Lacking fine distinctions or specific details
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  1. Lacking fine distinctions or specific details
  2. Broad; general:
  3. On a large scale; not fine or detailed:
lewd
(Obs.) Unlearned; ignorant
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  1. (Obs.) Unlearned; ignorant
  2. Preoccupied with sex and sexual desire; lustful.
  3. Showing, or intended to excite, lust or sexual desire, esp. in an offensive way; lascivious
nasty
Unpleasant or annoying:
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  1. Unpleasant or annoying:
  2. (--- Archaic) Dirty; filthy.
  3. Disgusting or repellent:
profane
Not admitted into a body of secret knowledge or ritual; uninitiated.
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  1. Not admitted into a body of secret knowledge or ritual; uninitiated.
  2. Nonreligious in subject matter, form, or use; secular:
  3. Vulgar; coarse.
smutty
Pornographic or indecent
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  1. Pornographic or indecent
  2. Soiled with smut
  3. Affected with plant smut
vulgar
Of, characteristic of, belonging to, or common to the great mass of people in general; common; popular
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  1. Of, characteristic of, belonging to, or common to the great mass of people in general; common; popular
  2. Characterized by a lack of culture, refinement, taste, restraint, sensitivity, etc.; coarse; crude; boorish
  3. Offensively excessive in self-display or expenditure; ostentatious:
raunchy
Uninhibited. Used of sex.
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  1. Uninhibited. Used of sex.
  2. Grimy; unkempt:
  3. Of poor quality, appearance, etc.; dirty, cheap, sloppy, etc.
Find another word for scurrilous. In this page you can discover 35 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for scurrilous, like: fescennine, obscene, ribald, indecent, coarse, vulgar, foulmouthed, obscene, shameless, ribald and lewd.

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  • While at Douai he wrote a scurrilous attack on Queen Elizabeth, which caused a riot among the English students.

  • crowned him in 1505 poeta laureates; in 1506, he was created doctor theologiae, and in 1513 was appointed custodian of the Franciscan monastery in Strassburg, an office which, on account of a scurrilous publication, he was forced to vacate the following year.

  • c. 400), the presbyter, celebrated as the author of a work, no longer extant, against superstitious practices, which called forth one of the most violent and scurrilous of Jerome's polemical treatises, was born about 370 at Calagurris in Aquitania (the modern Cazeres or perhaps Saint Bertrand de Comminges in the department of Haute-Garonne), where his father kept a "statio" or inn on the great Roman road from Aquitania to Spain.

  • By this time O'Connell had attained a position of great eminence in the House of Commons: as a debater he stood in the very first rank, though he had entered St Stephen's after fifty; and his oratory, massive and strong in argument, although too often scurrilous and coarse, and marred by a bearing in which cringing flattery and rude bullying were strangely blended, made a powerful, if not a pleasing, impression.

  • At a later period he was unjustly described as "a scurrilous party writer," which he certainly was not; but, on the other hand, Johnson spoke of his writing "so variously and so well," and put Robinson Crusoe among the only three books that readers wish longer.

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