opprobious

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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 Berman, Louis, M.D.

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 Kayll, James Leslie Allan

In Australia the most opprobious epithet one can apply to a man or other object is "cow".

From Three Elephant Power and Other Stories by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)

Mr Pecksniff called him opprobious names for the suggestion.

From Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens, Charles

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 Harland, Marion