scurrilously

1. 1.

   in a scurrilously manner

   “one paper scurrilously described how Edward was neglecting a bereaved mother to dance attendance on Wally”

Questions about scurrilously

What does scurrilously mean?

scurrilously means "in a scurrilously manner".

How many syllables are in scurrilously?

scurrilously has 4 syllables and divides as scur-ri-lou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is scurrilously a common word?

scurrilously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.