How to Use scurrilous in a Sentence

scurrilous

adjective
  • 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
  • And in return for all that scurrilous effort, not a single banning.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Their neat, sometimes strict attire, and placid meins were a good foil for their often scurrilous motives.
    — Vogue, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The idea that the 2008 campaign was uniquely scurrilous is provably wrong.
    — Ezra Klein, Vox, 7 Sep. 2018
  • His brushes with the law, and his drug use, morphed into scurrilous tabloid fodder, making his life, at least for a while, a living hell.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • David will be considering the position with his legal team and will take such steps as may be appropriate over these false and scurrilous allegations.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 16 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Scurrilous rumors that McMaster has a drinking problem floated around the periphery.
    — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 17 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • Men of good taste and reputation politically sidelined by scurrilous demagogues.
    — Sam Negus, National Review, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The immigration debate often is infused with scurrilous claims and misinformation.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Tom Hanks played McCoy, Melanie Griffith played his mistress, and Bruce Willis played a scurrilous journalist in the center of it all.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2026
  • But the six-part series goes deeper, delving beneath the sensational headlines to investigate how a scurrilous rumor in the early 1990s nearly came to ruin a man’s life.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the Hulu version of the story, Clarke plays Alex, a middle-aged lawyer stealing money from his clients and funneling it into an opioid addiction and, the series implies, other scurrilous crimes.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • As the scurrilous allegations multiplied, reputation-conscious banks cut off his company, Lord Energy.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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