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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It is said that only the narrow-minded are intolerant or opprobrious.

From Time Magazine Archive

I don't think you can exactly call him that; there was nothing in the opprobrious sense foxy about him.

From A Woman Perfected by Marsh, Richard