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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "opprobrious" in a sentence

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    opprobrious


    1. He had only a very hazy idea what a coincidence was, but Dan had none at all and thought it must be something peculiarly opprobrious


    2. 15 The man who is accustomed to opprobrious words will never be reformed all the days of his life


    3. Contempt, expressed by the opprobrious epithet raka, or shallow brains


    4. Resolved, That the committee appointed to report on the rules and orders for the government of the House, do report a rule declaring, "That if any member, in the course of debate, shall make use of opprobrious or vilifying language with respect to any member, or call into question the integrity of his motives, or those of either branch of the Government in relation to the discharge of his official duties, except on a motion for impeachment, or for other interposition of the constitutional powers of this House—or apply to either indecorous or reproachful expressions—it shall be deemed a breach of the orders of the House


    5. What conceivable enterprise which expected to exist on public patronage would assume as the unofficial metaphor of dealings a pair of wild beasts bellowing and growling over the carcass of a lamb, and make this most helpless and stupid of animals the representation of the customer? To call a trader a lamb is as opprobrious an epithet as it was to call a Norman baron an Englishman


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    Synonyms for "opprobrious"

    black disgraceful ignominious inglorious opprobrious shameful abusive scurrilous defaming dishonourable disreputable scandalous hateful shaming contemptuous insolent derogative insulting offensive embarrassing malignant damaging hurting spiteful disparaging depreciative debasing vituperative

    "opprobrious" definitions

    expressing offensive reproach


    (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame