Definition of "scurrile" [scur•rile]

• Archaic Scurrilous. (adjective)

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• "Their wits indeed serve them to that sole purpose, to make sport, to break a scurrile jest, which is levissimus ingenii fructus, the froth of wit, as"
• "“Peace with thy scurrile jests!” answered Edith, colouring deeply."
• "In our ordinary talk and fallings out, the most opprobrious and scurrile name we can fasten upon a man, or first give, is to call him base rogue, beggarly rascal, and the like:"