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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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
Isolation, when spoken of by opponents to a similar measure for venereal diseases, is opprobriously described as "compulsory detention."
From Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health by New Zealand. Committee of the Board of Health
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
“Certes, during these days, evenings and nights, they talked opprobriously of the mass, of confession, of indulgences, and of His Royal Majesty....”
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
Thinke you, my Lord, this little prating Yorke Was not incensed by his subtile Mother, To taunt and scorne you thus opprobriously?
From Richard III by William Shakespeare
