How to Use scurrilous in a Sentence

scurrilous

adjective

• The entire Trump project was a scurrilous joke, of course.
  — Joe Klein, Washington Post, 8 July 2022
• The idea that the 2008 campaign was uniquely scurrilous is provably wrong.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 7 Sep. 2018
• Of course, once these scurrilous claims hit the public sphere, other brain deads pick up the mantle.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 10 Sep. 2017
• Trump’s team has dismissed the dossier as entirely scurrilous.
  — Laurence Arnold, Bloomberg.com, 9 May 2017
• Their neat, sometimes strict attire, and placid meins were a good foil for their often scurrilous motives.
  — Vogue, 30 Oct. 2021
• On Friday night, the Court dismissed this scurrilous lawsuit on the grounds that Texas had no standing to challenge election results in other states.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2020
• As false and often scurrilous news proliferates on the internet, those values are in tension more than ever, as the case of Chobani v. Alex Jones shows.
  — WSJ, 30 Apr. 2017
• On the day before the election, Wright made public scurrilous attacks made against her on automatic telephones calls to voters.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 1 May 2021
• His longstanding and intimate links to the scurrilous press is not just one of his quirks, but integral to his political identity.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 3 July 2017
• And a set of rules, rather than restraining the guest’s experience, is meant to help guide that guest, and everyone else, through a pleasant evening accompanied by the gentle clink of glasses rather than a scurrilous roar.
  — Eric Alperin and Deborah Stoll, latimes.com, 31 May 2017
• So magnificent are these 300 warriors that they surely would have held the pass indefinitely ... if not for the actions of a scurrilous traitor, Ephialtes, a misshapen hunchback who was too deformed to serve in the Spartan line.
  — Myke Cole, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2019
• After the President lied to the American people, the President's associates argued that the allegations against the President were false and even scurrilous.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 11 July 2018
• Scurrilous rumors that McMaster has a drinking problem floated around the periphery.
  — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 17 Aug. 2017
• Harvey has long been rumored to be more interested in New York nightlife, supermodels, and perhaps the other scurrilous aspects of stardom — but that mattered little to fans when the sinker was drawing swings-and-misses.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 8 May 2018
• There was an obelisk with a profile of Pushkin, a modest bouquet of purple flowers at its base, memorializing the duel with a French officer whom Pushkin accused of spreading scurrilous rumors about Pushkin’s twife.
  — Lucas Peterson, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2016
• The reaction to the Kathy Griffin photograph is encouraging; the success of the more scurrilous late-night talk show hosts, and Trump's continuing unpresidential blogging, is not.
  — Julian E. Zelizer, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
• One reason for her trepidation was the presence of the international press, hoping for some piece of scurrilous or revelatory news.
  — Alexander Larman, Town & Country, 19 Jan. 2021
• Nazi caricatures of Jews as conniving, scurrilous schemers - a people of hooked noses and sinister motives - infused the art, literature, film and propaganda that led to the Holocaust.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• Contrary to her latest defamatory press statement, the evidence, including sworn testimony, will show the full extent and scope of the scurrilous falsehoods Kesha spread.
  — Jeff Nelson, PEOPLE.com, 15 June 2018
• Others predicted the internet giant would surely recoil from our scurrilous treatment by relocating to a red state.
  — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 13 Nov. 2018
• James will not only fully defend himself, but will also seek damages from the plaintiffs and their attorneys for filing this scurrilous publicity-seeking lawsuit.
  — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• Will, the noble straight shooter, is our entry point into the film, but for a long time Gyllenhaal, in jabbering-psycho-lite mode, dominates the proceedings, and the character’s scurrilous abrasiveness is more wearying than charismatic.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Mar. 2022
• But the seven surviving chapters suggest that, far from dying along with him, the nihilism, cynicism, and scurrilous tactics that Atwater brought into national politics live on.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 6 May 2021
• Then again, the late 18th century, when the U.S. was founded, was a golden era of misinformation as well, with anonymous pamphlets and partisan newspapers peddling scurrilous tales about opposing politicians and parties.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2023
• Unfortunately, the platform’s misleading advertising has given rise to a scurrilous campaign against the film itself.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2020
• This new bourbon comes with intentionally scurrilous details from online whiskey retailer Caskshare, and has its sights set squarely upon our own stable genius ex-President Donald Trump.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2022
• Men of good taste and reputation politically sidelined by scurrilous demagogues.
  — Sam Negus, National Review, 10 Oct. 2021
• Someday, perhaps, attention-seeking social-media posts will naturally peter out, as CB radio chatter and scurrilous pamphleteering once did.
  — Amar Bhidé, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• While a liberal biologist is strongly influenced by their political outlook and will defend it forcefully, anthropologists seem trained to throw around scurrilous terms and associations as if that was the ultimate training of their profession.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2011
• Antifa becomes merely a radical adjunct to traditional Democratic-party politics; the alt-right becomes merely a useful tool for scurrilous Republican politicians and media figures.
  — Ben Shapiro, National Review, 15 Aug. 2017

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