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Opprobrious adj.

Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. "They... vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked."

Infamous; despised; rendered hateful; as, an opprobrious name. "This dark, opprobrious den of shame."

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Etymology of 'Opprobrious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Opprobrious" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the officers, she started up, and stood erect, face to face with the husband: "the opprobrious blur against all peace and joy and light and life"—for he was standing against the window a-flame with morning. But in her terror, that seemed to her the flame from hell, since he was in it—and she cried to him to stand away, she chose hell rather than ...

— Browning's Heroines • Ethel Colburn Mayne

... little awfulness, for when the lieges saw him, they feared him; but the Sultan of these days hath need of the most accomplished polity and the utmost majesty, because men are not as men of by-gone time and this our age is one of folk opprobrious, and is greatly calamitous, noted for folly and hardness of heart and inclined to hate and enmity. If, therefore, the Sultan (which Almighty Allah forfend!) be weak or wanting in polity and majesty, this will be the assured cause of his country's ruin. ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton

... terms opprobrious they mouth Anent our noble elevating sport Where our illustrious citizens do meet And in the ...

— 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts • Spokeshave (AKA Old Fogy)

... lips checked the opprobrious word, as Babie, true woman through it all, whispered with a broken sob, "Spare him, for I loved ...

— Pauline's Passion and Punishment • Louisa May Alcott

... this amazin' an' stupenjus fraud committed by the man Dearsley, I hild a council av war; he thryin' all the time to sejuce me into a fight wid opprobrious language. That sedan-chair niver belonged by right to any foreman av coolies. 'Tis a king's chair or a quane's. There's gold on ut an' silk an' all manner av trapesemints. Bhoys, 'tis not for me to countenance any sort av wrong-doin'—me bein' the ould man—but—anyway ...

— Soldier Stories • Rudyard Kipling

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