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Meanings of opprobrious in English

(Used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame.

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        Containing defamation.

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            Usage of opprobrious in English
            1
            The captain stood at the stern addressing the bow with opprobrious language.
            Men, Women, and Boats
            2
            He called the panther every opprobrious name that fell to his tongue.
            Jungle Tales of Tarzan
            3
            I am no impostor, my Lord, nor have I deserved opprobrious language.
            The Castle of Otranto
            4
            Every tongue was engaged in loading me with the most opprobrious epithets!
            The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
            5
            But who ever heard the opprobrious term 'fortune-hunter' given to a woman?
            Molly Bawn
            6
            And he became exceedingly opprobrious, and uttered contempt of the name of Feverel.
            Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
            7
            There was no opprobrious or harsh epithet he did not use.
            Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) / From the ...
            8
            Now that would be opprobrious.' Stephen gives a bark of laughter.
            Wolf hall
            9
            At this opprobrious epithet Traverse, with a flushed face, started to his feet.
            Capitola the Madcap
            10
            Whenever they mentioned Makola's name they always added to it an opprobrious epithet.
            Tales of Unrest
            11
            She kept on, with hysterical violence, shouting at him an opprobrious, filthy epithet.
            Of Human Bondage
            12
            Do you remember all those opprobrious words and thoughts and actions?
            New Tabernacle Sermons
            13
            Here in this dark, opprobrious den of shame: this is its own punishment.
            Pandaemonium
            14
            It is often applied to quarrelsome, overpaid footballers and is by no means opprobrious.
            The Irish Times
            15
            And Dudhope-even he the representative of Graham of opprobrious memory-disappeared
            Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 23
            16
            In this confession foreigners are designated by the opprobrious epithet of 'little'-thatis, contemptible-'demons.
            Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talma...
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