It was an opprobrious decision by the clan to torch the neighboring village. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : opprobrious invectives. ,opprobrious conduct. From Dictionary.com.
I have been called opprobrious names by a sergeant of. From Wordnik.com. [Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders] Reference
Page 76: 'opprobious' corrected to 'opprobrious'. (in terms opprobrious they mouth). From Wordnik.com. ['A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts] Reference
The usual way to do this is to fling vile epithets, to call opprobrious names, to make shameful charges. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
Mrs. Cranston wrote fiercely and frequently to Agatha, and, for aught I know, called her opprobrious things. From Wordnik.com. [Under Fire] Reference
Again, in terms opprobrious they mouth. From Wordnik.com. ['A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts] Reference
"Now that is young in the opprobrious sense of the word," said Sir. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Mordens, where the opprobrious Relieving Officer met with anything but. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference
Tom usually addressed Chess by that opprobrious nickname, 'Lasses, while. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands] Reference
The opprobrious epithets which he applied to her stung her to the quick. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
But who ever heard the opprobrious term 'fortune-hunter' given to a woman?. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
'They will accuse even virtue herself; with heinous and opprobrious words.'. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
By way of proof, I offer a single opprobrious example, Senator Arlen Specter. From Wordnik.com. [Five Popular Delusions Castrating America] Reference
Not wanting opprobrious epithets, my steed remained nameless for the first week. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
She could not risk incurring that opprobrious label by stopping to grab any clothes. From Wordnik.com. [One Night for Love]
The sneers, the opprobrious epithets of this bravo of literature have been received in. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Pictures of generals or royalties are especially liable to defacement with opprobrious epithets. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words, will never be corrected all the days of his life. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
They were stigmatized by such opprobrious nicknames and epithets as 'Barnburners,' Free Soilers, '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
His "Fabian Tactics" have become proverbial, and earned for him at the time the opprobrious epithet. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918] Reference
To call a trader a lamb is as opprobrious an epithet as it was to call a Norman baron an Englishman. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
"Do I play like an old woman in the opprobrious sense of the word?" he demanded, mimicking the Tenor. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
When I first met Evadne I was still young enough, in the opprobrious sense of the word, to suppose that. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
These enthusiasts were called all sorts of opprobrious names such as, 'Nigger friends, and disturbers of. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
When he was marched up from the wharf, the sailors were permitted to heap upon him every opprobrious epithet. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
Roselawn heard the children shrieking, and without doubt this opprobrious epithet referred to the one pursued. From Wordnik.com. [The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air] Reference
He reviled her, called her by opprobrious epithets, and told his father that he would never consent to see her. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
But when she beheld the letter again, she read again the opprobrious word "faithlessness" in her husband's handwriting. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
He had too lately stood in the place of an individual bearing quite too many opprobrious epithets, to feel very light-hearted. From Wordnik.com. [Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories] Reference
Another alderman, Nicholas Exton, of Queenhithe Ward, had recently been removed from his aldermancy for opprobrious words used to. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
To the term "militarism" we attach an opprobrious meaning; militarism is the more infamous in exact proportion to its efficiency. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
An opprobrious form of religious imposture -- perhaps the most contemptible -- which frequently offended the public eye, before the. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
And here let me ask in sober reason, what language more opprobrious, what actions more exasperating, than those used on this occasion?. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
Russel, being a very sensible man, reasoned learnedly against his accusers; while they in return made use of very opprobrious language. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
The opprobrious names applied to the would-be and baffled conqueror at this time are curiously similar to the epithets hurled at Napoleon. From Wordnik.com. [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference
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