"scurrilous" = "wicked"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Encarta includes this common sense, but OED does not.

  Here's an ex.:

  1964 Douglass Parker, trans. _Lysistrata_ (Rpt. N.Y.: New American Library, 1970) 54:  But this [blockading the Treasury] is unscrupulous !...Scurrilous !...Doubtless illegal !

  JL


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