scurrilous
英 ['skʌrɪləs]
美 ['skɝələs]
語源
scurrilous 下品な、意地悪な、口の悪い、口の悪いラテン語のscurrilis（道化師）に由来する、道化師のような。slanderous, libellousから派生。
英語の語源
- scurrilous (adj.)
- "using such language as only the licence of a buffoon can warrant" [Johnson], 1570s, from scurrile "coarsely joking" (c. 1500, implied in scurrility), from Latin scurrilis "buffoonlike," from scurra "fashionable city idler, man-about-town," later "buffoon." According to Klein, "an Etruscan loan-word." Related: Scurrilously; scurrilousness.
例文
- 1. Scurrilous and untrue stories were being invented.
- 虚偽の誹謗をでっち上げている人がいる。
- 2.She was often quite scurrilous in her references to me.
- 彼女は私のことを言うと、よく悪口を言った。
- 3.Her scurrilous performances have already condemned her.
- 彼女の罵詈雑言の演出は彼女に罪を定めた。
- 4.Satan dropped it there，I take it，intending a scurrilous jest against your reverence.
- きっとサタンがそこに置き去りにして、閣下のあなたを中傷する意図があると思います。
- 5.She was frightened by an utterly false accusation and an utterly scurrilous threat.
- 彼女は徹底した誣告を受け、人の卑劣な脅威におびえていた。
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