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Recent Examples of opprobrious Honor is not, in Mr. Sommers’s view, without its opprobrious aspects, not least its association with violence. Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for opprobrious
Adjective
  • This could include advising your child to block individuals who display abusive behaviors and report such violations to the gaming platform.
    Mia Taylor, Parents, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Anthony was ‘Unstoppable’ during his ‘Hell Week’ initiation at Arizona State When his abusive prison guard stepfather, Rick (Bobby Cannavale), leaves the family, Anthony turns down a full ride at Drexel University to stay at home and help his mother.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Vancouver’s permissive policies and mild weather have lured thousands of people who are vulnerable to addiction to a city notorious for Canada’s most expensive housing.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Advertisement Cuba always seemed an odd member of the notorious club, which included Syria and Iran.
    Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • This disastrous budget is even more insulting as Los Angeles County grapples with the devastation from four major fires.
    Bill Essayli, Orange County Register, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Hinchcliffe, who is not Puerto Rican, was just plain cruel, insulting and dehumanizing.
    David Plazas, The Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The plea deal would have effectively ended over 20 years of wrangling and closed the book on one of America's most infamous legal chapters.
    Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
  • By this point, longtime GM Mickey Loomis’ salary cap situation is infamous.
    Jacob Robinson, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Coco Gauff moved her head-to-head with Iga Swiatek one small step in the right direction with a 6-4, 6-4 win of at times outrageous quality in Sydney.
    James Hansen, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Rodin Cars Even at the lower end of that range (i.e. 1,500 hp), that'll make for an outrageous power-to-weight ratio of 2,149 hp per ton.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2025
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  • Agriculture titan Archer Daniels Midland delays have mushroomed into a transfer-pricing criminal probe.
    Noah Barsky, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The motion said Peterson is a business owner and military veteran who had no criminal history prior to his Jan. 6 case.
    Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • He was booked on charges of enticing a child under 16, distribution of obscene matter, and lascivious posing and exhibiting a child in the nude.
    Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Of course, obscene content has been censored, and services that clearly broke intellectual property laws, like Napster, WikiLeaks, and The Pirate Bay were shuttered, but, for the average person, the internet remained broadly open in the United States.
    Callum Booth, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • And Mark, in turn, begins to suspect that something shady is happening at Lumon.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 15 Jan. 2025
  • But fake paramours, fly-by-night contractors, bogus handymen and shady housing professionals are guilty, too.
    LEW SICHELMAN, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025

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“Opprobrious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opprobrious. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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