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billingsgate
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harsh insulting language
- the intemperate billingsgate to which the staff in customer service were sometimes subjected
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abuse, vituperation, invective, obloquy, billingsgate mean vehemently expressed condemnation or disapproval. abuse, the most general term, usually implies the anger of the speaker and stresses the harshness of the language.
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- scathing verbal abuse
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- a torrent of vituperation
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- blistering political invective
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- subjected to obloquy and derision
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- directed a stream of billingsgate at the cabdriver
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