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  2. Unparliamentary language - Wikipedia

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    brat, buffoon, chancer, communist, corner boy, coward, fascist, gurrier, guttersnipe, hypocrite, rat, scumbag, scurrilous speaker, or yahoo; or to insinuate that a TD is lying [41] or drunk. [42] The word "handbagging" is unparliamentary "particularly with reference to a lady member of the House". [43]

  3. List of English words of Etruscan origin - Wikipedia

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    scurrilous Serge (first name) serve the word serve derives from Latin servire ('to serve') and servus ('a slave'), which have sometimes been thought to derive from Etruscan. [25] However, a detailed analysis has preferred an Indo-European etymology for the Latin word. [26] spurious

  4. Scurrilous - Wikipedia

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    Scurrilous is the third studio album by Canadian progressive metal band Protest the Hero. It was released on March 22, 2011. [ 2 ] The word scurrilous is defined as "vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed; coarse, vulgar, abusive, or slanderous."

  5. Castrato - Wikipedia

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    The castrati came in for a great amount of scurrilous and unkind abuse, and as their fame increased, so did the hatred of them. They were often castigated as malign creatures who lured men into homosexuality. There were homosexual castrati, as Casanova's accounts of 18th-century Italy bear witness. He mentions meeting an abbé whom he took for ...

  6. Unferð - Wikipedia

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    James L. Rosier, relying on Latin glosses in other Old English writings, interpreted the word to suggest something villainous or scurrilous. [9] This was, however, rejected by Ida M. Hollowell, who theorizes that the Anglo-Saxon audience who immediately know what a thyle was and would even identify Unferth as such by his position at the feet of ...

  7. The pen is mightier than the sword - Wikipedia

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    Robert Burton, in 1621, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, stated: "It is an old saying, 'A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword': and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrilous and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-play or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever."

  8. Censorship in the United States - Wikipedia

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    It forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt. Those convicted under the act generally received sentences of imprisonment for five to 20 years. [11]

  9. Anti-Scottish sentiment - Wikipedia

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    Pro-Jacobite writings and pamphleteers, e.g. Walter Harries and William Sexton, were liable to imprisonment for producing seditious or scurrilous tracts; all works were seized or destroyed. [26] Anti-Jacobite Pamphleteering, as an example An Address to All True Englishmen, [27] routed a sustained propaganda war with Scotland's pro-Stuart ...