rabulous

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rabulous (comparative more rabulous, superlative most rabulous)

  1. (obsolete) Vile; scurrilous.
    • 1914, Sir Frederick Pollock, Alfred Edward Randall, Arthur Lehman Goodhart, The Law Quarterly Review - Volumes 26-30, page 167:
      Ihering says : ' The weakness of Portia's judgment lies juridically in this, that, as she did not decide against the validity of the bond on the ground of its being contra bonos mores, it was nothing but a miserable rabulous trick to forbid the inevitable shedding of blood.
    • 1927, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Collected works of V. I. Lenin, page 117:
      But what can one do when the heroes of modern criticism (who have the insolence to charge orthodox Marxists with resorting to rabulous disputation) distort the absolutely clear meaning of a doctrine to which they are opposed by quoting passages out of context and in faulty translations?
    • 2016, Richard Bagwell, Ireland under the Tudors with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History, →ISBN:
      Browne also accused Staples of indulging in other 'rabulous revilings' against him, of denying that men should search the Scriptures, and of allowing his suffragan to pray first for the Pope, then for the Emperor, and lastly for the King.