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Meanings of opprobrious in английском

(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 английском
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The captain stood at the stern addressing the bow with opprobrious language.
Men, Women, and Boats
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He called the panther every opprobrious name that fell to his tongue.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan
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I am no impostor, my Lord, nor have I deserved opprobrious language.
The Castle of Otranto
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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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But who ever heard the opprobrious term 'fortune-hunter' given to a woman?
Molly Bawn
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And he became exceedingly opprobrious, and uttered contempt of the name of Feverel.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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There was no opprobrious or harsh epithet he did not use.
Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) / From the ...
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Now that would be opprobrious.' Stephen gives a bark of laughter.
Wolf hall
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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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She kept on, with hysterical violence, shouting at him an opprobrious, filthy epithet.
Of Human Bondage
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Do you remember all those opprobrious words and thoughts and actions?
New Tabernacle Sermons
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Here in this dark, opprobrious den of shame: this is its own punishment.
Pandaemonium
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It is often applied to quarrelsome, overpaid footballers and is by no means opprobrious.
The Irish Times
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And Dudhope-even he the representative of Graham of opprobrious memory-disappeared
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 23
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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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