Not only that, but they had the audacity to defend him from the Democrats' scurrilous eleventh-hour attack.

I know him, I have even protected him on a number of occasions against scurrilous attacks by fellow priests.

Mr. Sessions said on Monday that his wife of 42 years had borne the same "scurrilous attacks" he had endured.

After several scurrilous but ineffectual attacks by the Jesuit party, in 1607 a new and more successful attempt was made.

And then the Shah had allowed the publication of a scurrilous attack on his clerical enemy, Ayatollah Khomeini.

The lawsuit "is a scurrilous attack," said Mario Gabelli, president and chief investment officer of the fund.

"I am not obliged to present myself for this scurrilous attack as opposed to a discussion of issues," he said.

This scurrilous and preposterous attack was a fatal mistake on the part of the shah.

"This is the man who ordered the scurrilous attack on the peace conference, further humiliating us at the moment of our capitulation!"

The election of 1796 was the first partisan affair in the nation's history, and one of the more scurrilous in terms of newspaper attacks.