SCURRILE

Definition: SCURRILE

SCURRILE

Adjective

1. Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Scurrile \Scur"rile\, adjective. [Latin expression scurrilis, from scurra bufoon, jester: compare to the French expression scurrile.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: SCURRILE

Synonyms: paltry, scurrilous. (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Detraction	Adjective: detracting;Verb: defamatory, detractory, derogatory, deprecatory; catty; disparaging, libelous; scurrile, scurrilous; abusive; foul-spoken, foul-tongued, foul-mouthed; slanderous; calumnious, calumniatory; sarcastic, sardonic; sarcastic, satirical, cynical.
Disrespect	Adjective: disrespectful; aweless, irreverent; disparaging; insulting;Verb: supercilious, contemptuous, patronizing; (scornful); rude, derisive, sarcastic; scurrile, scurrilous; contumelious.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: SCURRILE

Etymologies containing "SCURRILE": scurrilous. (references)

Non-English Usage: "SCURRILE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Italian (scurrilous).

Language		Translations for "SCURRILE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Greek		χυδαίοσ (blatant, coarse, gross, indelicate, lawbred, vulgar, vulgarian), αχρείοσ (depraved, foul, infamous, miscreant, rascal, rascally, scoundrel, scurrilous, scurvy, vile, villainous). (various references)

Pig Latin		urrilescay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"SCURRILE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Scricle, Scruvial, Scurfield, scurril, Scurrula. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "SCURRILE" (pronounced 'Scur"rile'): Fabrile, Furile, Invirile, Virile. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-r-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: cruiser, curlers, curlier, curries, scurril, surlier.
	-2 letters: cirrus, criers, cruise, curers, curies, curler, currie, curser, lucres, lurers, recurs, relics, ricers, rulers, rulier, slicer, sluice, ulcers.
	-3 letters: ceils, cires, clues, crier, cries, cruel, cruse, curer, cures, curie, curls, currs, curse, ecrus, ileus, liers, lieus, luces, lucre, lurer, lures, recur, relic, ricer, rices, riels, riles, riser, ruers, ruler, rules, sieur, slice, slier, sucre, sulci, surer, ulcer, ureic.
	-4 letters: ceil, cels, cire, clue, cris, crus, cues, cure, curl, curr, curs, ecru, ecus, errs, ices, ires, isle, leis, lice, lier, lies, lieu, lire, luce, lues, lure, recs, reis, rice, riel, rile, rise, ruer, rues, rule, ruse, sice, sire, slue, slur, suer, sure, uric, user.
	-5 letters: cel, cis, cue, cur, ecu, els, err, ers, ice, ire, lei, leu, lie, lis, rec, rei, res, rue, sec, sei, sel, ser, sic, sir, sri, sue, use.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-r-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: curricles.
	+2 letters: curtailers, mercurials, ridiculers, versicular.
	+3 letters: cartularies, circularise, irrecusable, irrecusably, recursively, relicensure, secularizer, sericulture, terricolous.
	+4 letters: agricultures, chartularies, circularised, circularises, circularizes, circularness, cloudberries, intercluster, maricultures, precariously, recirculates, relicensures, relubricates, scurrilities, secularizers, semicircular, sericultural, sericultures, superciliary, surrealistic, ultraprecise.
	+5 letters: carillonneurs, circularities, circumcircles, circumstellar, citricultures, floricultures, horticultures, huckleberries, intercultures, interlocutors, mercurialness, microcultures, neurosurgical, oracularities, particularise, prosecutorial, rearticulates, reproducibles, sericulturist, structuralize, supercollider, supercriminal, supercritical, vernacularism.
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