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Recent Examples of scurrilous The good people of Lancaster County were innocent of the charges thrown at them by raving Southerners and scurrilous Democrats. Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025 One upshot was Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which to this day insulates social media from legal liability for the content — however incendiary or scurrilous — that users post. Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025 Facts won’t deter Republicans on this point, however, for the same reason that Trump and his running mate, J. D. Vance, keep repeating their scurrilous lies about Haitian immigrants eating the pets of Ohio: white anxiety about a diversifying country has become one of the Party’s greatest assets. Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2024 Lee is obsessed with this for a reason that’s scurrilous but also kind of tragic. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for scurrilous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scurrilous
Adjective
  • Heartbreaking to hear her talk about needing an escape from her abusive husband.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Among them was a mom of three trying to work up the courage to leave her abusive partner.
    Essence, Essence, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Sack Dress was outrageous, really outrageous.
    Sarah Mower, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But Driss has fielded his share of outrageous custom requests.
    Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • To educate all of them in similar ways is insulting, and silly.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Perkins said the drink bore the insulting message.
    Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Banners or signs may not be commercial in nature or obscene, or cause any disturbance to other fans.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Workers described incidents of verbal and physical abuse, including reports from women workers who said they had been manhandled and subjected to obscene remarks and threats.
    Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In the years intervening, the poem has remained a lodestar, a contravening presence when, in present day America’s vituperative political landscape, the humanities disciplines and higher education itself has been forced to invoke and defend its own authority.
    Elaine L. Wang September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Even the company’s most vituperative detractors acknowledge its engineering genius and applaud its success in driving down launch expenses (unlike many defense contractors, SpaceX largely eats the cost of its failures).
    Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2025

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“Scurrilous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scurrilous. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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