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Meanings of opprobrious in anglès
(Used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame.
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Containing defamation.
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Examples for "insulting"
Examples for "insulting"
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Madam, - Many people make insulting remarks about particular groups of people.
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And so I would wonder why this particular answer was so insulting.
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I think it's frankly insulting that question would be asked, she said.
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Photo: SUPPLIED All three men had denied insulting religion during their trial.
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Not only was this turn of events insulting, it's probably also illegal.
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Four of those cases involved domestic violence victims fleeing their abusive partners.
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Others also recommend having a code word to signal an abusive situation.
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She described daily abusive text messages, and threatening and frightening phone calls.
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Schools were closed, and children were sometimes quarantined with abusive family members.
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Violent and abusive language, or language which describes the reality of abortion?
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We present clear examples of the protective and injurious nature of NO.
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Conclusions: More rational psychopharmacological treatments for severe self-injurious behaviour may become available.
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Yes; the injudicious use of a blower is injurious to any boiler.
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The impossibility of forming intimacies calculated to be injurious in after life.
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This is depressing to the defender and is injurious to his morale.
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There'd been nothing derogatory or recent under either personal or business files.
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Asked if that was not derogatory language, he said it was not.
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There is nothing derogatory to her in what you say-quite the reverse.
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No truth can be derogatory to the presumed fountain of all truth.
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The flock, with shrill, derogatory remarks, flew in an airline straight away.
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Which puts the new Octavia Scout in somewhat of an invidious position.
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His only approach to invidious comment was in regard to the terrapin.
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There can be no invidious rivalry between the dead and the living.
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The arrival of a visitor put an end to the invidious comparison.
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They diffused the most invidious reports against Oxford and secretary St. John.
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It is defamatory and I will leave it at that, he said.
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Lawyers for Sinn Féin contended that neither statement contained any defamatory content.
3
The movie contains many false and defamatory statements and scenes about me.
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I mean, it's pretty defamatory stuff, Mr McGowan told reporters on Wednesday.
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His attorney Marty Singer has dismissed the allegations as discredited and defamatory.
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Her considerable sources, named and anonymous, do offer scurrilous details and minutiae.
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I know also who is the author of the two scurrilous paragraphs.
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It was a scurrilous anti-Catholic leaflet, grossly personal and savouring of atheism.
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It has gone the length of scurrilous songs about our worthy gentleman.
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Knowles scowled at him; he had no fancy for Pike's scurrilous gossip.
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Comments favorable and unfavorable, some of them libelous, appeared in print.
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It isn't libelous if it's done as a joke without malice.
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In other locales, perfectly accurate statements can be considered libelous.
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Aside from the fact that it is intemperate and inaccurate, it is also libelous.
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I wonder the curse of Gomorrah does not descend on this gossiping, libelous community.
Usage of opprobrious in anglès
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The captain stood at the stern addressing the bow with opprobrious language.
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He called the panther every opprobrious name that fell to his tongue.
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I am no impostor, my Lord, nor have I deserved opprobrious language.
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Every tongue was engaged in loading me with the most opprobrious epithets!
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But who ever heard the opprobrious term 'fortune-hunter' given to a woman?
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And he became exceedingly opprobrious, and uttered contempt of the name of Feverel.
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There was no opprobrious or harsh epithet he did not use.
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Now that would be opprobrious.' Stephen gives a bark of laughter.
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At this opprobrious epithet Traverse, with a flushed face, started to his feet.
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Whenever they mentioned Makola's name they always added to it an opprobrious epithet.
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She kept on, with hysterical violence, shouting at him an opprobrious, filthy epithet.
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Do you remember all those opprobrious words and thoughts and actions?
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Here in this dark, opprobrious den of shame: this is its own punishment.
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It is often applied to quarrelsome, overpaid footballers and is by no means opprobrious.
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And Dudhope-even he the representative of Graham of opprobrious memory-disappeared
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In this confession foreigners are designated by the opprobrious epithet of 'little'-thatis, contemptible-'demons.
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