opprobrious

To my great relief, I was mentioned only once or twice and not in opprobrious terms.
Alan Turing’s Brother: He Should Be Alive Today|John Ferrier Turing|June 23, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The Apaches looked on from a distance, uttering yells of exultation and making opprobrious gestures.
Overland|John William De Forest
"Dirty-nosed" is a common opprobrious expression in Esthonia.
Kalevala, Volume I (of 2)|Anonymous
Cut appears to have been an opprobrious term used by the vulgar when they scolded or abused each other.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3|Various

But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Dryden's Works (13 of 18): Translations; Pastorals|John Dryden
His editor, Laing, bids us observe “that all these opprobrious terms are copied from Foxe, or rather from the black letter tract.”
John Knox and the Reformation|Andrew Lang

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opprobrious

/ (əˈprəʊbrɪəs) /

adjective

expressing scorn, disgrace, or contempt

shameful or infamous

Derived forms of opprobrious

opprobriously, adverbopprobriousness, noun

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