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词汇 opprobrious
释义 opprobrious
adjective
 formaluk /əˈprəʊ.bri.əs/ us /əˈproʊ.bri.əs/
expressing severe criticism and blame: 抨击的,谴责的
We denied the opprobrious charges published against us.我们否认那些针对我们发表的令人不齿的指控。
They called me by opprobrious names.他们用恶毒的话骂我。
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opprobrium
She used all manner of opprobrious terms about them.
The film attracted the opprobrious epithet 'heritage movie'.
He cursed them with most opprobrious language.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Disapproving & criticizing
anathematize
animadversion
aspersion
aw
backbite
barrel
bash
belabour
boo
disapprobation
excoriate
knock
knocker
let someone have both barrelsidiom
low blow
mordacious
mordancy
pile
slam
union-basher

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opprobrious
I think, speaking from memory, that one must not use opprobrious epithets.
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I would not say anything opprobrious about this circular, but it does appear to be a little belated.
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To be told you are in favour of private enterprise is the same as having an opprobrious epithet applied to you.
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The individual concerned will never know in what sense he has transgressed and why he should have earned the opprobrious description of "swindler".
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Those opprobrious words are used about him in his official, predatory position, and not as a person.
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A free-for-all should not be regarded as an opprobrious expression; it should refer to an aim that we should embrace readily, freely and eagerly.
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I do not want in a debate of this kind to introduce anything like opprobrious epithets.
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I certainly do not accept for a moment the opprobrious epithets in which that supplementary question was clothed.
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The word "animal" is only rarely applied to man, except in an opprobrious, derogatory or contemptuous manner.
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It is an opprobrious phrase, prying, if you do not agree with the activity at all or with the purpose of the activity.
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Would you cause him to withdraw that disgraceful and opprobrious intervention?
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However, in a sense, it is a little opprobrious to suggest that those qualities could not be found in a member of the forum.
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But let us leave the fixed incomes aside, heavily taxed as some of them are, as the opprobrious recipients of unearned income.
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The trick was, and still is, to get as many opprobrious adjectives and adverbs into eight or so sub-paragraphs.
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In the 19th century there were many scandals which, in the terms of those days, were as hateful and opprobrious as those we see today.
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