scurrile

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She was no Pompadour or Du Barry to whom the scurrile De Mirecourt compared her.

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They made scurrile jests about his figure, as though a statesman must be necessarily a sculptor's model!

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Those lips had certainly never parted to laugh at or to utter a scurrile jest.

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The humorous organ, Punch, did not check its “scurrile jester” in the drawing of most offensive cartoons of the President of the United States; practically the whole of the aristocracy was hostile; in all Parliament but one voice was raised for the North, and that was the voice of John Bright.

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But only elevated and peculiar minds discover, in addition to all this, the full moral beauty of the love and truth which are the constant associates of all that is even most weak and erring in the character of its hero, and pass over the rude adventure and scurrile jest in haste—perhaps in pain, to penetrate beneath the rusty corselet, and catch from the wandering glance the evidence and expression of fortitude, self-devotion, and universal love.

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