(Used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame.
1 The captain stood at the stern addressing the bow with opprobrious language.
2 He called the panther every opprobrious name that fell to his tongue.
3 I am no impostor, my Lord, nor have I deserved opprobrious language.
4 Every tongue was engaged in loading me with the most opprobrious epithets!
5 But who ever heard the opprobrious term 'fortune-hunter' given to a woman?
6 And he became exceedingly opprobrious , and uttered contempt of the name of Feverel.
7 There was no opprobrious or harsh epithet he did not use.
8 Now that would be opprobrious . ' Stephen gives a bark of laughter.
9 At this opprobrious epithet Traverse, with a flushed face, started to his feet.
10 Whenever they mentioned Makola's name they always added to it an opprobrious epithet.
11 She kept on, with hysterical violence, shouting at him an opprobrious , filthy epithet.
12 Do you remember all those opprobrious words and thoughts and actions?
13 Here in this dark, opprobrious den of shame: this is its own punishment.
14 It is often applied to quarrelsome, overpaid footballers and is by no means opprobrious .
15 And Dudhope-even he the representative of Graham of opprobrious memory-disappeared
16 In this confession foreigners are designated by the opprobrious epithet of 'little'-thatis, contemptible-'demons.
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