(1) They are not about press illegality but something mysteriously called "misdemeanour" – that is scurrility, intrusion and unfairness.
(2) They were there to record everything from his despair at the fickleness of his recruits, to the distress of his wife Jools at the way the media had invaded their privacy, with scurrilous rumours of infidelity.
(3) With its combination of scurrilous details (“flask” sized penises and a key witness called Bubba the Love Sponge) and big picture analysis (“this is the biggest First Amendment case in the internet age”), Hogan v Gawker is a classic Denton story.
(4) Jailed in 1971 for his part in producing the scurrilous magazine Oz, he runs the Forest of Dennis, more than 600,000 new trees covering 500 hectares, through a charitable trust.
(5) The flurry of scandal over Oxford University Press stopping its children’s writers from referring to pigs or pork for fear of risking Middle East sales – or the Harper Collins atlases for export that mysteriously omit Israel for the same reason – show how easily freedom slips away unless scurrilous outriders like Charlie Hebdo can keep mocking church and mosque.
(6) Also moving last week: • Switzerland, 26 April: Sion president Christian Constantin says reports that he could sack his fifth coach of the season are scurrilous: "Gattuso is going nowhere, he calls the shots – nothing will be done here without his say so."
(7) Richard Davenport-Hines in his recently published An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo writes that 1963 was the year when "the soapy scum flowed after the sluices of self-righteous scurrility were opened".
(8) Others on the train begin spreading scurrilous rumours that I am travelling in first class, forcing me later to produce my train tickets.
(9) The union vowed to ramp up industrial action, including strikes in the autumn over a range of grievances spanning pay, pensions and workload after passing a motion denouncing "scurrilous attacks, abuse, intimidation and lies" and accusing the government of a "vicious assault" on the profession.
(10) Rather, it will protect members of the public from the more scurrilous abuses, which in my case resulted in the printing of lies and unfounded allegations.
(11) Through the listserv, conference calls were quickly organized among top scientists across the country to discuss how to respond to the news that what was seen as a scurrilous and misleading film was to be given a high-profile airing.
(12) I am not a member or even supporter of the Labour party but your scurrilous coverage has convinced me that your paper no longer lives up to the label.
(13) The justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke , said: "As the law stands, individuals can be the subject of scurrilous rumour and allegation on the web with little meaningful remedy against the person responsible.
(14) "We are instructed to record our clients' complete rejection of the scurrilous allegations made by the applicants in their papers.
(15) What about Damian McBride, Brown's shamed spin doctor, sacked for sending an email suggesting planting scurrilous and untrue rumours about members of the opposition?
(16) McBride was forced to resign as Brown's head of strategy in 2009 after he sent Draper emails containing scurrilous gossip and lies about Conservative MPs as planning for Red Rag took shape.
(17) Whether such scurrilous operations will surface in 2012 might depend on how close the polls are and at present they are tight.
(18) Liddle provokes to the brink of apoplexy, but he rarely conceals his views in insidious campaigns of rumour and scurrility.
(19) 6.36pm BST 77 min : De Sciglio booked for a scurrilous strategic foul aimed at aborting another Uruguay attack.
(20) These days it would be stretching it to suggest that Eastwood's range is quite that broad, his face seemingly fixed in a beatific beam, the sort of blissful countenance that once had him pegged in a scurrilous - and erroneous - piece of showbiz gossip as Stan Laurel's love child.
Sleazy
Definition:
(a.) Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The air of downmarket sleaziness associated with some of its stores would now seem to extend to its accounting.
(2) Writing about Tulsa in The Photobook Volume 1 , authors Martin Parr and Gerry Badger say that the "incessant focus on the sleazy aspect of the lives portrayed, to the exclusion of almost anything else – whether photographed from the 'inside' or not – raises concerns about exploitation and drawing the viewer into a prurient, voyeuristic relationship with the work."
(3) And by his "treatment" of women, we mean his assumption that women enjoy being hit on by sleazy guys like him who have at least 90% more nose-cartilage than is normal and who don't take no for an answer.
(4) 16 October 2009 The day before Gately's funeral, Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir writes an article that describes events leading up to his death as "sleazy" and "less than respectable".
(5) Things start getting out of control when Rocket's younger gang target the clients of a sleazy motel and the raid, intended to be bloodless, becomes a killing spree.
(6) The PCC received more than 25,000 complaints, a record number, after Moir wrote about Gately's death, describing events leading up to it as "sleazy" and "less than respectable".
(7) Moral leader The Daily Mail on the FA's refusal to comment on JT: "Even in the sleazy, venal world of football, Terry's record was unforgivable.
(8) A former police officer is less complimentary: "The clientele in these places are by definition pretty sordid, highly manipulative and sleazy," he says.
(9) This week, as the Blairites bobbed and weaved their way out of the sleazy embrace of their friend, Gaddafi of Libya, someone forgot to tell the old school tie.
(10) Sometimes sleazy, always sincere, his songs have a kind of slacker-stealth to them: his sweet and sleepy voice creeps up on you, earworming its way in until someone asks you to stop humming.
(11) Bankers are seen as greedy, librarians as demure, journalists as sleazy, nurses as angels and estate agents as dishonest.
(12) Private meetings with newspaper proprietors are not disallowed under any parliamentary or party rules, but Hacked Off, the group campaigning on behalf of phone-hacking victims for a Leveson law for press regulation, said social occasions like this smacked of "sleazy" deals behind closed doors.
(13) Miami is a magnet for slick, sleazy stuff,” Snitzer say.
(14) For example: "I hope she has an unfortunate death like Stephen Gately as karma that she deserves for her 'sleazy lifestyle'."
(15) Having lanced this boil, Moir lets the pus drip out all over her fingers as she continues to type: "The circumstances surrounding his death are more than a little sleazy," she declares.
(16) In financial terms, that need not be a bad thing – but Bank says it needs a sharper image: "The issue isn't that it's sleazy.
(17) He has the sleazy, bouffanted Master of the Universe act down so well, you may miss him in the rest of the movie.
(18) "There have been complaints about my use of the word 'sleazy' to describe this incident, but I still maintain that to die on a sofa while your partner is sleeping with someone else in the next room is, indeed, sleazy, no matter who you are or what your sexual orientation might be."
(19) Moir said she honestly believed that Gately's death raised many unanswered questions that were a matter of public interest and defended her use of the word "sleazy" to describe the circumstances of his death, which occurred in Majorca after Gately and his civil partner Andrew Cowles went to a nightclub and brought back a Bulgarian man to their apartment.
(20) In April last year the Daily Sport introduced a £1m redesign aiming for a "sexy rather than sleazy" look.