Sentences with opprobrious
op·pro·bri·ous
O o - opprobrious invectives.
- opprobrious conduct.
- Although this has been opprobriously termed ‘behavior control’ by some ethicists, the counselor is no more controlling behavior than is a surgeon who recommends an elective operation.
- While one should deplore the heavy-handed censorship that made the Index of Forbidden Books so opprobrious, no one can wonder why the censors found Hume a prime candidate for that infamous canon.
- The term also entered popular journalism of the 1920s and 30s, used of composers as unalike as Varèse and Bartók, generally with opprobrious intent.
- In this more recent instance, Atkinson found an opprobrious term rolling nicely off the tongue.
- Sponsors are withdrawing advertisements featuring the couple and websites have been flooded with opprobrious messages.