opprobrious

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

At one time or another, Harte partially earned many of the opprobrious epithets that Mark Twain hurled his way.

From Time Magazine Archive

I shall be grieved for the fatal issue of my experiment; I shall mourn over thy martyrdom to the most opprobrious and contemptible of all errors: but that thou shouldst undergo the trial is decreed.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden