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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

When her disgruntled guests start making off, she accuses them of committing more opprobrious acts by choice than those which circumstance required her to perform.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he drove forth into the city few people took notice of him, none did him reverence, a few eyed him askance, and once or twice he was assailed by some opprobrious phrase.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton