opprobious
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In these opprobious and afflicting times, What offering so comely as our tears?
From Athaliah A Tragedy, Intended For Reading Only, Translated Into English Blank Verse, From Racine (A. Gombert's Edition, 1825) by J. Donkersley
The opprobious epithet of "old maid" is unknown.
From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca
If a child be bright he has every consideration from his teachers and receives from his companions the opprobious nickname of "Teacher's Pet."
From A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science by James Leslie Allan Kayll
She had rather he had coupled it with opprobious epithets whenever he referred to him, than spoken of him as "this" or "that gentleman."
From At Last by Marion Harland
Besides these, there are the singular masses upon which has been fastened the unnecessarily opprobious epithet of brain sand.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
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