variants
or scurril
as in abusive
marked by harsh insulting language
performs a scurrile comedy routine that is guaranteed to rile people
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Adjective
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It’s been three years since McCurdy’s memoir cast a sharp eye on her life as a child actor — she’s best known for playing tough girl Samantha Puckett on the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly — with a controlling, abusive mother.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
20 Jan. 2026 -
Riffing on classic mafia films, Sunny follows a female gangster who fights to protect her sons — and herself — from an abusive drug kingpin.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
20 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Danica Curcic’s character Katarina is much more outrageous, and Danica was not afraid to take that character to her limit.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
21 Jan. 2026
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These outrageous price increases seem to be nothing more than corporate greed, which is what is gripping the country across the board and helping to keep inflation rising.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
15 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Many researchers cite those exact words as insulting or wrong when asked about their own terminations.—
STAT Staff,
STAT,
29 Dec. 2025
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With two toddlers and a 10-hour workday for her husband, the advice was more insulting than helpful.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
7 Dec. 2025
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“Scurrile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scurrile. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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