opprobrious

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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

The nation's urban public schools have lately been subjected to a tide of opprobrious criticism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still another group earned for themselves the supposedly opprobrious but decidedly vague title of "Dualists," by rejecting what they conceived to be the pantheism of Hegel.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various