opprobious

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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

The opprobious epithet of "old maid" is unknown.

From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)

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

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