opprobrious

Example Sentences

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He hated the term “black” — back then spelled with a lowercase B — which had often been an opprobrious way of talking about the people to whose fight for equality he’d devoted his life.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2021

On the one hand Jerry has zoned in on a fertile topic for humour – the idea that remarking on something as simple as the motion of a hand could result in opprobrious censure.

From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2017

At one time or another, Harte partially earned many of the opprobrious epithets that Mark Twain hurled his way.

From Time Magazine Archive

When her disgruntled guests start making off, she accuses them of committing more opprobrious acts by choice than those which circumstance required her to perform.

From Time Magazine Archive

He drives the cat away with every opprobrious epithet for she wakes in him "each bestial sense" and makes him what he "would not be."

From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell