0 expressing unfair or false criticism that is likely to damage someone's reputation:
1 rude and cruel, and sometimes damaging:
scurrilous remarks
The author seems to have felt that her subject also needed to be enlivened by inclusion of the copious and sometimes scurrilous anecdotes that her researches turned up.
As he generously suggested, professional people are no less scurrilous in their suspicions, although there should be a presumption of innocence, than non-professional people.
It has been to start a scurrilous attack on all his opponents.
We refute the scurrilous allegation that we are in some way pleased that people are suffering this pain now.
There has been much scurrilous talk without any foundation.
There are some perfectly good reasons why one could run a campaign, scurrilous or not.
Something needs to be done about the scurrilous misuse of amphetamines and amphetamine-type drugs.
That was a scurrilous remark against an individual who cannot defend himself here.
