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rabulous

rabulous adjective: vile; scurrilous.

Adjective

rabulous (comparative more rabulous, superlative most rabulous)

  1. (obsolete) Vile; scurrilous.
    • 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.1914, Sir Frederick Pollock, Alfred Edward Randall, Arthur Lehman Goodhart, The Law Quarterly Review - Volumes 26-30, page 167
    • 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?1927, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Collected works of V. I. Lenin, page 117

Forms of rabulous

comparativemore rabulous
superlativemost rabulous

Questions about rabulous

What does rabulous mean?
Rabulous means vile; scurrilous.
What part of speech is rabulous?
Rabulous is an adjective.

Words near rabulous in the dictionary

  1. Rabson
  2. Rabson-Mendenhall syndrome
  3. rabulism
  4. rabulisms
  5. rabulistic
  6. rabulous
  7. Rabun
  8. Rabun County
  9. Rabuns
  10. Raburn
  11. Raburns

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