scurrilous
scurrilous 英 [ˈskʌrələs] 美 [ˈskɜrələs]
adj. 下流的；说话粗鄙恶劣的；无礼的
- If something is scurrilous, it's meant to offend. Scurrilous rumors can give you a bad rep, and scurrilous stories sell tabloid magazines.
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- adj. 下流的；说话粗鄙恶劣的；无礼的
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1. It was written in response to attacks on mainstream science which the Royal Society considered scurrilous.
它是为回应学会斥之为下流的关于主流科学的攻击而写就的。
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2. One such example involved a customer who asked the young printer to publish a piece in the Gazette that Franklin found "scurrilous and defamatory."
这里有个例子，曾经有一名顾客要求这个年轻的出版商在报上刊登一则消息，而Franklin在其中发现了“下流和诽谤的字眼。”
- scurrilous (adj.) "using such language as only the licence of a buffoon can warrant" [Johnson], 1570s, from scurrile "coarsely joking" (c. 1500, implied in scurrility), from Latin scurrilis "buffoonlike," from scurra "fashionable city idler, man-about-town," later "buffoon." According to Klein's sources, "an Etruscan loan-word." Related: Scurrilously; scurrilousness.
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