Opprobry

Word OPPROBRY
Character 8
Hyphenation op pro bry
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The word "opprobry" in example sentences

And although during his whole lifetime he should have peaceable possession thereof, yet if what hath been so acquired moulder away in the hands of his heirs, the same opprobry, scandal, and imputation will be charged upon the defunct, and his memory remain accursed for his unjust and unwarrantable conquest; ❋ Unknown (2002)

Samson was accounted of the Philistines for a fool, but he would rather die than suffer that opprobry unrevenged (Judic. xvi.). ❋ Various (1852)

Was the haste so great to hie to such opprobry as that you would pronounce a never thought of action afore you had but asked the question of her that best could tell it? ❋ Lucy Aikin (1822)

III. ii.9 (56, l) [patches] _Patch_ was in old language used as a term of opprobry; perhaps with much the some import as we use _raggamuffin_, or _tatterdemalion_. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

And although during his whole lifetime he should have peaceable possession thereof, yet if what hath been so acquired moulder away in the hands of his heirs, the same opprobry, scandal, and imputation will be charged upon the defunct, and his memory remain accursed for his unjust and unwarrantable conquest; Juxta illud, de male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius haeres. ❋ Fran��ois Rabelais (1518)

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

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