How To Use Opprobrious In A Sentence
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While one should deplore the heavy-handed censorship that made the Index of Forbidden Books so opprobrious, no one can wonder why the censors found Hume a prime candidate for that infamous canon.
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Just as the peaceful country-dweller calls the sea-rover a "pirate," and the stout burgher calls the man who breaks into his strong-box a "robber," so the selfish laborer applies the opprobrious epithet "scab" to the laborer who takes from him food and shelter by being more generous in the disposal of his labor-power.
THE SCAB
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He gave me his bunk last night and betook himself to the sleeping camp, which bears also the opprobrious name of "the doggery.
Janey Canuck in the West
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In such cases Worth turned to the opprobrious but proven methods of Thomas Jesup.
Between War and Peace
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In short, valuing for the increment added by improvements, if not an everyday occurrence, is by no means so odd as to attract the opprobrious epithet ‘impractical’.
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_Castlereagh_, was Lord _Clare_, Chancellor of Ireland, who used also to call men {64} with three names by a term opprobrious among the Romans:
Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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The term also entered popular journalism of the 1920s and 30s, used of composers as unalike as Varèse and Bartók, generally with opprobrious intent.
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The opprobrious connotation of the term bureaucracy
Mises Dailies
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From about the year 1580, besides the term papist, employed with opprobrious intent, the followers of the old religion were often called Romish or Roman Catholics.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Occasionally, the term faction is used as a synonym for political party, but" with opprobrious sense, conveying the imputation of selfish or mischievous ends or turbulent or unscrupulous methods ", according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Pepys' Diary
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Mrs. Cranston wrote fiercely and frequently to Agatha, and, for aught I know, called her opprobrious things.
Under Fire
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The opprobrious term 'Anabaptist' was and is a vile slander.
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But the little children and dirt-pie manufacturers were presently succeeded by followers of a larger growth, and a number of lads and girls from the factory being let loose at this hour, joined the mob, and began laughing, jeering, hooting, and calling opprobrious names at the Frenchman.
The History of Pendennis
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The way and manner in which he justifies himself and his apostleship from the opprobrious insinuations and accusations of false teachers, who endeavoured to ruin his reputation at Corinth, ch.x. -xii., and throughout the whole epistle.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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I have been called opprobrious names by a sergeant of
Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders
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Page 76: 'opprobious' corrected to 'opprobrious'. (in terms opprobrious they mouth).
'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts
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Charlatan is an opprobrious term, but "empiric" literally means one who follows experience instead of dogma, and should therefore be an honorable designation; but as the medical profession has always been dogmatic, and therefore hostile to empiricism, or fidelity to experience, it has made empiricism an opprobrious term.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10
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Every kind of contumelious reproach is heaped on the heads of the working men who dare to replace him when he strikes; and he does not scruple to use under such conditions weapons more convincing than the most opprobrious epithets.
The Promise of American Life
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The term also entered popular journalism of the 1920s and 30s, used of composers as unalike as Varèse and Bartók, generally with opprobrious intent.
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We need to move beyond tut-tutting his opprobrious behavior and figure out a way to undermine or neutralize this very typical strategy of the right wing attack dogs.
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But when she beheld the letter again, she read again the opprobrious word "faithlessness" in her husband's handwriting.
Filipino Popular Tales
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Sponsors are withdrawing advertisements featuring the couple and websites have been flooded with opprobrious messages.
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Just as the peaceful country-dweller calls the sea-rover a "pirate," and the stout burgher calls the man who breaks into his strong-box a "robber," so the selfish laborer applies the opprobrious epithet "scab" to the laborer who takes from him food and shelter by being more generous in the disposal of his labor-power.
THE SCAB
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It was, however, subjected to some criticism and ridicule, and gave rise to the expression “bowdlerise,” always used in an opprobrious sense.
A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
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Growing up, it's funny how words get to be opprobrious.
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His enemies could find no opprobrious appellation for him but "Catiline," instead of "Caldwell," which was his middle name -- no crime but ambition.
Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
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The usual way to do this is to fling vile epithets, to call opprobrious names, to make shameful charges.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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an opprobrious monument to human greed
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In our ordinary talk and fallings out, the most opprobrious and scurrile name we can fasten upon a man, or first give, is to call him base rogue, beggarly rascal, and the like:
Anatomy of Melancholy
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In this more recent instance, Atkinson found an opprobrious term rolling nicely off the tongue.