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synonyms for opprobrious
- abasing
- calumniatory
- contemptuous
- contumelious
- damaging
- debasing
- defamatory
- defaming
- denigrating
- depreciative
- derogative
- despicable
- despiteful
- detractive
- disgracing
- dishonoring
- disparaging
- humiliating
- hurting
- injuring
- injurious
- insolent
- insulting
- invective
- libeling
- malevolent
- malign
- malignant
- maligning
- notorious
- offending
- offensive
- pejorative
- reproaching
- reviling
- scandalous
- scurrilous
- shaming
- spiteful
- truculent
- vile
- vitriolic
- vituperative
- vulgar
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How to use opprobrious in a sentence
To my great relief, I was mentioned only once or twice and not in opprobrious terms.
Alan Turing’s Brother: He Should Be Alive Today | John Ferrier Turing | June 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Apaches looked on from a distance, uttering yells of exultation and making opprobrious gestures.
Overland | John William De Forest"Dirty-nosed" is a common opprobrious expression in Esthonia.
Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) | Anonymous
Cut appears to have been an opprobrious term used by the vulgar when they scolded or abused each other.
But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Dryden's Works (13 of 18): Translations; Pastorals | John DrydenHis editor, Laing, bids us observe “that all these opprobrious terms are copied from Foxe, or rather from the black letter tract.”
John Knox and the Reformation | Andrew Lang
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