opprobrious
adjective
conveying or expressing opprobrium, as language or a speaker.
opprobriously
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a word derived from
opprobrious.
Example Sentences
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They nicknamed everybody, always opprobriously, often happily in the way of hitting off a salient peculiarity; but they were not in the least aware that they were themselves the best nicknamed people in the service.
From The Heavenly Twins by Madame Sarah Grand
When a writer, using the word mystical opprobriously, prints it in italics, it is usually safe to decide that he knows nothing of metaphysics.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
The term Physcon was a Greek word, which denoted opprobriously the ridiculous figure that he made.
From Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott
I, the burden-bearer, the caretaker, the worrier; I, who am opprobriously called "the manager" in this family—I have failed them at this critical point in their household history.
From The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Near Mevagissey, locally and opprobriously termed Fishygissey, is Pencarne, seat of the one-handed Carew, whose portrait is in Heligan House.
From Nooks and Corners of Cornwall by C. A. Dawson Scott
