very rude and offensive, and intended to damage somebody’s reputation 恶语毁谤的;用污言秽语谩骂的;辱骂的 scurrilous rumours 恶意中伤的谣言 He wrote a scurrilous piece about me in the local press. 他在当地报纸上写了一篇关于我的下流文章。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryScurrilous is used with these nouns:- attack
- rumour
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French scurrile or Latin scurrilus (from scurra ‘buffoon’) + -ous.