Adjective : opprobrious invectives. ,opprobrious conduct. From Dictionary.com.
"'I do not give you that name opprobriously,' resumed I, laughing. From Wordnik.com. [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference
"The beasts!" ejaculated Trix opprobriously, and not as the mere statement of an obvious fact. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Isolation, when spoken of by opponents to a similar measure for venereal diseases, is opprobriously described as "compulsory detention.". From Wordnik.com. [Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health] Reference
They nicknamed everybody, always opprobriously, often happily in the way of hitting off a salient peculiarity; but they were not in the least aware that they were themselves the best nicknamed people in the service. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
One word more about the race, all but extinct, of the people opprobriously called prize-fighters. From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye] Reference
For my part I was by no means certain that this gabelou (as our men alluded to her opprobriously) was after us at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of the Sea] Reference
Colonel Sackville, a member, having, in a private company, spoken opprobriously of those who affirmed that there was any plot, was expelled the house. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II.] Reference
'That is strange; know then that he was the founder of our poor society, and after him we are frequently, though opprobriously, termed Muggletonians, for we are Christians. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference
It was rumoured that he had, at Versailles, spoken opprobriously of the Irish nation; and he had, on this account, been, only a few days before, publicly affronted by Sarsfield. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference
I, the burden-bearer, the caretaker, the worrier; I, who am opprobriously called "the manager" in this family -- I have failed them at this critical point in their household history. From Wordnik.com. [The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors] Reference
For this offence, he was summoned before the marshal's court; was fined, as having opprobriously defamed the nobleman's crest, by calling the swan a goose; and was in effect reduced to beggary. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell] Reference
The representation of the Southern States being complete in both Houses before the close of the first session of the Forty-first Congress, an impartial estimate could be made of the strength and capacity of the men who were opprobriously designated in the South either as. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference
That was the ambitious pile of which Hyacinth had written, a house of clouded memories and briefest tenure; foredoomed to vanish like a palace seen in a dream; a transient magnificence, indescribable; known for a little while opprobriously as Dunkirk House, the supposed result of the Chancellor's too facile assistance in the surrender of that last rag of French territory. From Wordnik.com. [London Pride Or When the World Was Younger] Reference
Quintilius, making this a pretext for addressing them, began to go round Curio's lines, and to entreat the soldiers "not to lose all recollection of the oath which they took first to Domitius and to him their quaestor, nor bear arms against those who had shared the same fortune, and endured the same hardships in a siege, nor fight for those by whom they had been opprobriously called deserters.". From Wordnik.com. [Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars: with the Supplementary Books attributed to Hirtius.] Reference
The first class is what is opprobriously known as "strong-minded women," who claim the right to vote upon the ground that they are interested and identified with ourselves in the stability and permanency of our institutions, and that their property is made liable for the maintenance of our Government, while they have no right to choose the law-makers or select the persons who are to assess the value of their property liable to taxation. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference
From Lat. vagabundus, "a wanderer," "a fugitive;" not used opprobriously (Gen. 4: 12, R.V., "wanderer;" Ps. 109: 10; Acts. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
‘That is strange; know then that he was the founder of our poor society, and after him we are frequently, though opprobriously, termed Muggletonians, for we are Christians. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro] Reference
"bywoners," augmented by desperate men from the Cape who have nothing to lose, and who lead a jolly rollicking life on commando, stealing and looting from the farmers who have surrendered, and whom they opprobriously call "handsuppers!". From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
The Shi’ahs, on the other hand, hating Abu Bakr, see in it a symptom of treachery, and declare that the Prophet feared to let the “Old Hyena,” as they opprobriously term the venerable successor, out of his sight for fear lest he should act as spy to the Kuraysh. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
"That is strange; know then that he was the founder of our poor society, and after him we are frequently, though opprobriously, termed Muggletonians, for we are Christians. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference
Pharisees, opprobriously referred to. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously?. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedy of King Richard III] Reference
1739: To taunt and scorne you thus opprobriously?. From Wordnik.com. [Richard III (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
Pharisees, opprobriously referred to, 66. From Wordnik.com. [The Biglow Papers] Reference
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