“His taunting of the king and a scurrilous lampoon of Charles II in front of the French ambassador helps to seal his fate.”

“We do not permit, in either House, the use of scurrilous language.”

“It is a repetitious and tedious work, a mixture of scholarship and scurrilous invective, but Milton himself was well satisfied with it.”

“A scurrile or obscene jest will better advance you at the court of Charles than your father's ancient name.”

“His companions laughed merrily, and burst out into a scurrile song in ridicule of St. Trochu.”