Opprobrious

_Castlereagh_, was Lord _Clare_, Chancellor of Ireland, who used also to call men {64} with three names by a term opprobrious among the Romans: ❋ Various (1852)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The usual way to do this is to fling vile epithets, to call opprobrious names, to make shameful charges. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Page 76: 'opprobious' corrected to 'opprobrious'. (in terms opprobrious they mouth). ❋ Unknown (N/A)

I have been called opprobrious names by a sergeant of ❋ Talbot Mundy (1909)

Mrs. Cranston wrote fiercely and frequently to Agatha, and, for aught I know, called her opprobrious things. ❋ Charles King (1888)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In such cases Worth turned to the opprobrious but proven methods of Thomas Jesup. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While the legislation that ended the hypocritical DADT policy was surely welcome and a step forward, and although legislation already existed (the 1994 Solomon Act) that forced universities to open their campuses to military recruiters, the president made a mistake in equating (even implicitly) an end to an opprobrious military policy with basic equal civil rights for gay and lesbian Americans. ❋ Jonathan R. Cole (2011)

The judge branded the bank's conduct as inequitable, unconscionable, vexatious and opprobrious.'' ❋ Peter Dreier (2011)

However, the special security arrangements are found ineffective, opprobrious and unproductive. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By way of proof, I offer a single opprobrious example, Senator Arlen Specter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A dry Massachusetts banker named Delcevere King wanted to find an opprobrious word to describe imbibers who openly violated the Eighteenth Amendment. ❋ DANIEL OKRENT (2010)

Your nothing [more than] an opprobrious man with a [virulent] [nature] ❋ Garlou (2018)