He should not answer scurrilous charges dug up by his opponent to tarnish his image.
Reached last week, Mr. Moore said, "I understand there are all kinds of scurrilous charges going around but I've stayed out of it."
Those seeking to rebut the most scurrilous charges against Israel would do well to read either one.
And these are scurrilous and untrue charges, and the president wanted to set that straight.
Every major candidate draws scurrilous charges, but responsible journalists - quite rightly - refuse to report unsubstantiated accusations of things like love children, drug dealing or mistresses.
He made the scurrilous charge instead that a man competing for the Presidency is a partisan of criminals, deliberately "siding" with them.
I can hardly answer all of Mr. Marsalis's scurrilous charges here.
A right-wing rag makes up a scurrilous charge and prints it with no real attribution.
"It's a scurrilous charge," the mayor said.
Seeking to clear his name definitively, Franks asked General Washington to initiate another court-martial, one that would investigate-rather than simply drop-the scurrilous charges against him.