scurrilous attacks on the senator a scurrilous satire on the scandal that enveloped Washington

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Unfortunately, the platform’s misleading advertising has given rise to a scurrilous campaign against the film itself. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, "“Cuties,” the Extraordinary Netflix Début That Became the Target of a Right-Wing Campaign," 8 Sep. 2020

During the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, Harris ran with the most scurrilous smears against him, reading into the Congressional record the ludicrous and since-discredited gang-rape charge peddled by Michael Avenatti. Dan Mclaughlin, National Review, "Bulverism at The Bulwark," 18 Aug. 2020

Its agents pushed scurrilous and panic-inducing messages to U.S. cellphones saying that President Trump was about to impose a national lockdown policed by the National Guard. Matthew Continetti, National Review, "America Can’t Face China Alone," 25 Apr. 2020

TELEVISION Smollett's character dealt with scurrilous blog rumors on Wednesday night's (March 13) series return. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, "'Empire' Producer Says Cutting Jussie Smollett From Final Season 5 Episodes Was 'A Very Difficult Decision'," 14 Mar. 2019

The tenuous Wright connection, in Hendrickson’s feverish imagination, is a scurrilous newspaper editor named Robert Lloyd Jones, who used his Tulsa paper to whip up white indignation. Christopher Benfey, Harper's magazine, "Burning Down the House," 25 Nov. 2019

James will not only fully defend himself, but will also seek damages from the plaintiffs and their attorneys for filing this scurrilous publicity-seeking lawsuit. Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, "James Franco Sued by 2 Women Who Claim He Sexually Exploited Them Through His Acting School," 3 Oct. 2019

Nazi caricatures of Jews as conniving, scurrilous schemers - a people of hooked noses and sinister motives - infused the art, literature, film and propaganda that led to the Holocaust. Jeffrey Fleishman, chicagotribune.com, "Trump’s Jewish comments play on anti-Semitism in culture, film and art," 22 Aug. 2019

So magnificent are these 300 warriors that they surely would have held the pass indefinitely ... if not for the actions of a scurrilous traitor, Ephialtes, a misshapen hunchback who was too deformed to serve in the Spartan line. Myke Cole, The New Republic, "The Sparta Fetish Is a Cultural Cancer," 1 Aug. 2019

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