opprobrious

How To Use opprobrious In A Sentence

• Page 76: 'opprobious' corrected to 'opprobrious'. (in terms opprobrious they mouth). 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts
• In this more recent instance, Atkinson found an opprobrious term rolling nicely off the tongue.
• In our ordinary talk and fallings out, the most opprobrious and scurrile name we can fasten upon a man, or first give, is to call him base rogue, beggarly rascal, and the like: Anatomy of Melancholy
• an opprobrious monument to human greed
• The usual way to do this is to fling vile epithets, to call opprobrious names, to make shameful charges. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
• His enemies could find no opprobrious appellation for him but "Catiline," instead of "Caldwell," which was his middle name -- no crime but ambition. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
• Growing up, it's funny how words get to be opprobrious.
• It was, however, subjected to some criticism and ridicule, and gave rise to the expression “bowdlerise,” always used in an opprobrious sense. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
• Just as the peaceful country-dweller calls the sea-rover a "pirate," and the stout burgher calls the man who breaks into his strong-box a "robber," so the selfish laborer applies the opprobrious epithet "scab" to the laborer who takes from him food and shelter by being more generous in the disposal of his labor-power. THE SCAB
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