Category:Scurrility

Scur*ril"i*ty, n. Etym: [l. scurrilitas: cf. F.scurrilité.]

1. The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, Or obscene jocularity. Your reasons. . . have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without Scurrility. Shak.

2. That which is scurrile or scurrilous; gross or obscene language; Low buffoonery; vulgar abuse. Interrupting prayers and sermons with clamor and scurrility. Macaulay.

Syn. -- scurrilousness; abuse; insolence; vulgarity; indecency.