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Meanings of opprobrious epithet in English

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Usage of opprobrious epithet in English
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At this opprobrious epithet Traverse, with a flushed face, started to his feet.
Capitola the Madcap
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Whenever they mentioned Makola's name they always added to it an opprobrious epithet.
Tales of Unrest
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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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Then he stood up, and asked who had written the opprobrious epithet on the wall.
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
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If you make use of another opprobrious epithet, I will communicate the fact to him immediately.
The Allen House; Or, Twenty Years Ago and Now
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But the cad was very thick-skinned; he made not the slightest show of resentment at the opprobrious epithet.
On the Fringe of the Great Fight
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The Greeks are filled with amazed rage when their very name is flung at them as an opprobrious epithet.
Twenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical Notes
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Every word the Knight had uttered, and every opprobrious epithet which he had so lavishly bestowed, had been heard by her.
The Seven Champions of Christendom
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The senators from the rebellious States had all been expelled at the July session, but without the application of an opprobrious epithet.
Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 / From Lincoln to Garfield, wit...
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Every tongue was engaged in loading me with the most opprobrious epithets!
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
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I have already had occasion to allude to the sealer's readiness in using opprobrious epithets.
The Monikins
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Anne market- alargecrowd insulted him with opprobrious epithets.
Lord Elgin
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Asmund, who was habitually peevish under the puckerel curse, refused with opprobrious epithets, and the fighting began.
Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances
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But a clamor arose, drowning these protestations, and the most opprobrious epithets could be heard on every side.
Baron Trigault's Vengeance
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Occasionally passers by would fling opprobrious epithets at "the East Tennessee traitors," but that was all.
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
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Often the women joined in, and as they bid excitedly against each other the church rang with opprobrious epithets.
Auld Licht Idyls
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