opprobriate

present singular third person opprobriates · participle present opprobriating · participle past opprobriated · past opprobriated

1. To express opprobrium for or to view with opprobrium; to scorn.

   Shylock's famous line 'My daughter! O my ducats' (2.7.15) is frequently used to isolate and opprobriate him.

   2004, Michele Marrapodi, Shakespeare, Italy, and intertextuality, page 138

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   It is admitted by all men endowed with that nervous susceptibility of body and soul which the ill-natured opprobriate by the name of jealousy, that nothing can be more trying to a husband afflicted with this distemperature, than to see the idol of his bosom dance, for the first time after her marriage, with another man.

   1854, Catherine Grace F. Gore, Pin money, page 196

   you, without just cause or reasonable excuse, participated in and directed a previously planned public demonstration designed to opprobriate the participation of the United States Government in the affairs of the Dominican Republic.

   1967, Intramural Law Review of New York University - Volume 21, page 55

comparative more opprobriate · superlative most opprobriate

1. Expressing opprobrium; disparaging.

   I am not using these terms in an opprobriate sense, but simply as terms that are well understood among us.

   1912, Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of Mayors of the Cities of New York State

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   There are, no doubt, other bee-keeping nightmares of this ilk, but his term of opprobrium for honey-dew is very opprobriate.

   1909, British Bee Journal - Volume 37, page 499

   A woman appeared in a Canada court the other day and made complaint that another woman had called her an "opprobriate epithet."

   1875, The Cultivator & Country Gentleman, page 492

   On Earth, courts have concluded that society can tolerate a high degree of provocative and opprobriate speech, to the point that only such speech which will result in riotous actions is unprotected.

   1991, Space Manufacturing - Volume 8, page 94