grossly+abusive
51prohibitive — Synonyms and related words: abusive, criminal, cutthroat, dear, deterrent, deterring, discouraging, ethnocentric, exacting, exceptional, excessive, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, fancy, forbidding,… …
52outrageous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. offensive, shocking. See disrepute. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. offensive, shocking, flagrant, monstrous, atrocious, heinous, intolerable, appalling, extreme, excessive, inordinate, immoderate,… …
53scurrilous — does not mean merely angry or insulting. It means grossly obscene or abusive. An attack must be exceedingly harsh to be scurrilous …
54scurrilous — , which is most often encountered in the expression a scurrilous attack, does not mean disreputable or specious, though those senses are often intended. It means grossly obscene or abusive. An attack must be exceedingly harsh to be scurrilous …
55scurrilous — scur•ril•ous [[t]ˈskɜr ə ləs, ˈskʌr [/t]] adj. 1) grossly or obscenely abusive 2) coarsely jocular or derisive • Etymology: 1570–80; < Lscurrīlisjeering, der. of scurra buffoon scur′ril•ous•ly, adv. scur′ril•ous•ness, n …
56scurrilous — /ˈskʌrələs / (say skuruhluhs) adjective 1. grossly or indecently abusive: a scurrilous attack. 2. characterised by or using low buffoonery; coarsely jocular or derisive: a scurrilous jest. {see scurrile, ous} –scurrilously, adverb –scurrilousness …
57scurrilous — adj. 1 (of a person or language) grossly or indecently abusive. 2 given to or expressed with low humour. Derivatives: scurrility n. (pl. ies). scurrilously adv. scurrilousness n. Etymology: F scurrile or L scurrilus f. scurra buffoon …
