opprobrious

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He hated the term “black” — back then spelled with a lowercase B — which had often been an opprobrious way of talking about the people to whose fight for equality he’d devoted his life.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2021

On the one hand Jerry has zoned in on a fertile topic for humour – the idea that remarking on something as simple as the motion of a hand could result in opprobrious censure.

From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2017

The nation's urban public schools have lately been subjected to a tide of opprobrious criticism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not one opprobrious epithet did he hurl, not one ringing denunciation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bartley standing up on edge of scrimmage, pointed accusatory forefinger at him, was saying something, probably opprobrious but at the moment inaudible.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 5th 1893 by Various