Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an opprobrious manner; with abuse and insult; with opprobrium.
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- adverb In an
opprobrious manner.
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Examples
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"'I do not give you that name opprobriously,' resumed I, laughing;
Thaddeus of Warsaw Jane Porter 1813
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They gain, indeed, a name, but not each as they would have chosen: thus does God opprobriously cast down the pride of those who usurp to themselves honors to which they have no title.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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Nevertheless, though it was hard for the holy Fathers to be thus opprobriously rejected, and, as it were, to be loathed by a whole nation; yet this ignominy with which they were branded, was most profitable to themselves.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Therefore, as they were not ashamed to wander during the whole course of their life, and to be opprobriously called foreigners and strangers wherever they came; so God vouchsafed to them the incomparable dignity, that they should be heirs of heaven.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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"The beasts!" ejaculated Trix opprobriously, and not as the mere statement of an obvious fact.
Antony Gray,—Gardener Leslie Moore
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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.
The Heavenly Twins Madame Sarah Grand
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Isolation, when spoken of by opponents to a similar measure for venereal diseases, is opprobriously described as "compulsory detention."
Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health New Zealand. Committee of the Board of Health
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In fine, language is exhausted of epithets expressive of their scorn, contempt, and hatred of the _Yankees_, as they are opprobriously nicknamed.
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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This first sight of my name thus opprobriously flung to the multitude gave me an unpleasant shock.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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This first sight of my name thus opprobriously flung to the multitude gave me an unpleasant shock.
A Far Country — Volume 2 Winston Churchill 1909
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