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Scurrilous is a formal word for remarks, articles, or that attack someone in a low, ugly way — often with claims that are , or that you cannot prove. Newspapers, lawyers, and serious writers use it: “scurrilous accusations.” It does not mean funny, and it does not mean curious. Though actually, the old Latin root is about a buffoon, a cheap clown, and older English used scurrilous for coarse, vulgar abuse — insult dressed as a joke. That colour is still there. In today's news English, the main idea is smearing someone, often falsely, in a nasty register. Ordinary conversation almost never uses this word. People say “nasty lies,” “a smear,” or “rubbish written to hurt him.”
惡意誹謗的、不實抹黑的（書面、新聞用語）
組成From Latin scurrīlis, “buffoon-like,” + -ous, from scurra, “a buffoon.”
同家族的字
- scurrilouslythe adverb: in this nasty, smearing way
- scurrilitythe noun: this kind of low, abusive talk
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
scurrilousadj/ˈskʌ.ɹə.ləs/
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Of a person, given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed.
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Of language:
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Of language:
- She said Johnson was “a better man than many of your detractors will ever understand”, adding that it was “so desperately sad that you let yourself down by making a scurrilous accusation against the leader of the opposition”.
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Gross, vulgar.
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Unscrupulous, evil.
- We have had our address used by scurrilous crooks in the past to gain assets by fraud.
- "Instead, another dangerous killer now roams our streets, thanks to that scurrilous, sinister super-heel!"
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。