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Definition: Scurrility |
ScurrilityNoun1. Foul-mouthed or obscene abuse. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scurrility" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
Synonym: ScurrilitySynonym: billingsgate (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Detraction | Noun: detraction, disparagement, depreciation, vilification, obloquy, scurrility, scandal, defamation, aspersion, traducement, slander, calumny, obtrectation, evil-speaking, backbiting, scandalum magnatum. |
Disrespect | Vilipendency, vilification, contumely, affront, dishonor, insult, indignity, outrage, discourtesy; practical joking; scurrility, scoffing, sibilance, hissing, sibilation; irrision; derision; mockery; irony; (ridicule); sarcasm. |
Malediction | Abuse; foul language, bad language, strong language, unparliamentary language; billingsgate, sauce, evil speaking; cursing; Verb: profane swearing, oath; foul invective, ribaldry, rude reproach, scurrility. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Scurrility" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scurrility" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "scurrility"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lapërdhi (filth, foul language, lecherousness, lechery), gojështhurje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قذاعة, سفاهة (gall, impertinence, naughtiness, ribaldry, salaciousness), جلافة, بذائة (nastiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | циничност (bawdiness, lubricity), цинизъм (cynicism, indecency), вулгарност (bad form, blatancy, commonness, vulgarism, vulgarity), вулгарна забележка, вулгарен език. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sprostota (dirtiness, meanness, ordure, vulgarity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فحاشی , بددهانی (Swearword). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vulgarité, virulence, grossièreté, bassesse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Unflätigkeit (obscenity, offensiveness, rudeness, smuttiness, vileness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βωμολοχία (filth), προστυχιά (baseness, cheapness, lowness, sordidness, villainy, vulgarity), αχρειότησ (rascality, scoundrelism, scurviness, vileness, villainy), αχρειότητα (rascality, scoundrelism, scurviness, vileness, villainy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בול פ" (bawdiness, bawdry, obscenity, profanity, ribaldry, smut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | trágár beszéd (filth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scurrilit . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urrilityscay observação insolente, obscenidade (bawdy, blackguardism, dirt, foulness, imputation, indecency, lewdness, obscene, obscenity, obscurant, ore, ribaldry, smut), insulto (abuse, affront, contumely, indignity, injury, insult, lash, taunt, vituperation), impropério, grosseria (awkwardness, broadness, foulness, hog, horsepower, indelicacy, lumpy, ribaldry, rough, roughness, rudeness, vulgarism). (various references) mojicie (churlishness, gruffness, indelicacy, rudeness, uncouthness), mitocãnie (boorishness), josnicie (baseness, lowness, meanness, vileness, villainy), grosolãnie (barbarity, broadness, coarseness, crassitude, gothicism, gruffness, hoggishness, indecorum, indelicacy, rankness, roughness, rudeness, uncouthness). (various references) грубость (asperity, broadness, callousness, coarseness, crudeness, crudity, discourtesy, harshness, ill breeding, ribaldry, roughness, rudeness, ruffianism, truculence). (various references) skarednost. (various references) grosería (broadness, coarseness, grossness, nastiness, rudeness, swearword, vulgarity), carácter injurioso. (various references) plumphet (crudity, indelicacy), oanständighet (bawd, foulness, immodesty, impropriety, indecency, lewdness, naughtiness, obscenity, smut), grovkornighet. (various references) küfürbazlık (bad language, Billingsgate, swearing), küfür (a bad word, abuse, blasphemy, contumely, curse, cuss, cuss word, expletive, invective, invectives, oath, profanity, revilement, strong language, swearing, swearword), ağzı bozukluk (filth, profanity). (various references) груба брехня, непристойність (bawdry, coarseness, filth, immodesty, impurity, indecency, lewdness, obsceneness, obscenity, opprobriousness, ordure, salacity, smut). (various references) tính thô tục (commonness, filthiness, hoggishness, piggishness, ribaldry), tính tục tằn h nh vi thô bỉ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Scurrility" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scurrilitie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "scurrility" (pronounced 'Scur*ril"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability, Alterity, Alternity, Amability, Ambidexterity, Ambiguity, Amenability, Amenity, Amiability, Amicability, Amissibility, Amity, Amorosity, Amovability, Anaplasty, Anfractuosity, Anglicity, Angularity, Angulosity, Anility, Animality, Animosity, Annuity, Annularity, Anonymity, Anteriority, Antiquity, Anxiety, Appetibility, Applicability, Apprehensibiity, Approachability, Appropinquity, Apriority, Aqueity, Aquosity, Aridity, Artificiality, Asininity, Asperity, Assiduity, Assignability, Assimilability, Associability, Astucity, Atomicity, Atrocity, Attainability, Attractability, Attractivity, Audacity, Audibility, Austerity, Authenticity, Authority, Autoplasty, Autostability, availability, Avidity, Banality, Barbarity, Basicity, Batty, BEAUTY, Benignity, Bestiality, Betty, Bibacity, Biblicality, Biformity, Bilaterality, Biplicity, Bipolarity, Bolty, Booty, BOUNTY, Brevity, Bridalty, Brutality, Butty, Caducity, Calamity, Calidity, Caliginosity, Callidity, Callosity, Caloricity, Canonicity, Canthoplasty, Canty, Capability, Capacity, Capillarity, Captivity, Cariosity, Carnality, Carnivoracity, Carnosity, Casualty, Catholicity, Catty, Causality, Cavity, Cecity, Celebrity, Celerity, Centrality, Centricity, Cerebricity, Certainty, Champerty, Changeability, Charity, Chastity, Cheiloplasty, Christianity, Circuity, Circularity, Circumstantiality, Civillty, Clandestinity, Clarity, Clericity, Clivity, Clotty, Coactivity, Coagulability, Coequality, Coessentiality, Coeternity, Cogitability, Cognoscibility, Cohesibility, Collectivity, Colloidality, Columnarity, Combustibility, Comicality, Comity, Commensality, Commensurability, Commodity, Commonalty, Commonty, Communicability, Community, Commutability, Compaternity, Compatibility, Complexity, Complicity, Comprehensibility, Compressibility, Concavity, Concentricity, Conceptibility, Concinnity, Condensability, Condignity, Conditionality, Conducibility, Conductibility, Conductivity, Confinity, Confluxibility, Conformability, Conformity, Confraternity, Confusability, Congeniality, Congruity, Conicality, Conjugality, Connaturality, Connubiality, Consanguinity, Consentaneity, Conspectuity, Conspicuity, Constitutionality, Consubstantiality, Contemporaneity, Contemptibility, Contiguity, Continuity, Contractibility, Contractility, Contrariety, Controllability, Conventionality, Convertibility, Convexity, Convicinity, Conviviality, Cordiality, Coreplasty, Corporality, Corporeality, Corporeity, Corrigibility, Corrodibility, Corrosibility, Corruptibility, Cosurety, Cotqueanity, County, Credibility, Credulity, Criminality, Crinosity, Crocodility, Crudity, Cruelty, Cullibility, Culpability, Cupidity, Curability, Curiality, Curiosity, Curvilinearity, Curvity, Cutty, Cylindricity, Cytty, Damnability, Debility, Debonairity, Deceptivity, Deciduity, Declivity, Deducibility, Defectibility, Defectuosity, Defensibility, Deflagrability, Deformity, Deiformity, Deity, Demisability, Democraty, Demonstrability, Demurity, Density, Deplorability, Depravity, Deputy, Descendibility, Desirability, Despicability, Destructibility, Deteriority, Determinability, Detestability, Devexity, Devotionality, Dexterity, Dextrality, Diaphaneity, Dibasicity, Dicacity, Didacticity, Difficulty, Difformity, Diffusibility, Diffusivity, Digestibility, Dignity, Dilatability, Dimensity, Dimity, Disability, Disassiduity, Discommodity, Discommunity, Disconformity, Discongruity, Discontinuity, Discoverability, Disensanity, Disformity, Dishonesty, Disingenuity, Disloyalty, Disparity, Disproperty, Disputacity, Disquantity, Disreputability, Disrespectability, Dissimilarity, Dissipativity, Dissociability, Dissolubility, Dissolvability, Distensibility, Disunity, Diuturnity, Diversifiability, Diversity, Divinity, Divisibility, Docility, Docity, Domesticity, Dotty, Doty, Doughty, Drasty, Duality, Dubiety, Dubiosity, Ductility, Duplicity, Durability, Durity, Duty, Dynasty, Ebriety, Ebriosity, Eccentricity, Edacity, Edibility, Educability, Efficacity, Effumability, Egality, Egoity, Elasticity, Electorality, Elementality, Elementarity, Eligibility, Ellipticity, Emotivity, Empty, Enmity, Enomoty, Enormity, Entierty, Entirety, Entity, Ephoralty, Epulosity, Equability, Equality, Equanimity, Equilibrity, Equity, Erectility, Essentiality, Eternity. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-l-r-r-s-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: crustily, lyricist, rusticly. | |
-3 letters: citrusy, crusily, rustily, scurril. | |
-4 letters: cirrus, citrus, crusty, curtly, curtsy, lyrics, lyrist, rictus, rustic, scurry, sluicy, slurry, sultry. | |
-5 letters: cirri, clits, crust, culti, cults, curls, curly, currs, curry, curst, cutis, icily, ictus, licit, lusty, lyric, lytic, rusty, silty, styli, sulci, surly, tirls, truly, yirrs, yurts. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-l-r-r-s-t-u-y" | |
+4 letters: meretriciously, peritrichously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 75 72 72 69 6C 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. ..- .-. .-. .. .-.. .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01110101 01110010 01110010 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c u r r i l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0075 0072 0072 0069 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53698784847578758691 |
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