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She was no Pompadour or Du Barry to whom the scurrile De Mirecourt compared her.

They made scurrile jests about his figure, as though a statesman must be necessarily a sculptor's model!

But its scholarly origins ought not to suggest that Robinson in Ruins is a drier undertaking than the first two films, with their scurrile attitude to the political classes and their hints at Robinson's adventurous sex life.

Those lips had certainly never parted to laugh at or to utter a scurrile jest.

The humorous organ, Punch, did not check its “scurrile jester” in the drawing of most offensive cartoons of the President of the United States; practically the whole of the aristocracy was hostile; in all Parliament but one voice was raised for the North, and that was the voice of John Bright.