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as in abusive
marked by harsh insulting language
an opprobrious attack on the alleged corruption in the police department
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as in notorious
not respectable
contends that visiting a brothel is the sort of opprobrious conduct for which a public official should be censured
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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.
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Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for opprobrious
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The 2014 legislation also benefited the children of veterans and students without reliable housing or living in abusive households.—
Alexandra Glorioso,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan. 2025
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The departure follows in the wake of a number of European cinema bodies and figures quitting X in recent months – including the Berlinale and Venice head Alberto Barbera – amid concerns about a surge in disinformation and abusive content on the platform since Musk took ownership in 2022.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2025
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Go deeper: The most notorious Jan. 6 defendants pardoned by Trump America's second Paris withdrawal is not like the first Trump's inauguration word choices give insight into Trump 2.0 Editor's note: This story was updated with additional developments.—
Avery Lotz,
Axios,
28 Jan. 2025
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Nothing seemed suspicious at first; old-fashioned frame houses were notorious firetraps.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
26 Jan. 2025
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There would be nothing more insulting to our democracy, and to the memory of those who died in connection to that day, than letting rioters walk free.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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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
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While the domestic violence incident in 2009 involving then-girlfriend Rihanna remains the most infamous of Brown's legal troubles, he has been charged with a number of accusations over the years.—
Alex Heigl,
People.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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Benson Boone’s Australian tour reached a memorable peak on Jan. 20 when the 22-year-old pop sensation embraced one of the country’s most infamous traditions: the shoey.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
21 Jan. 2025
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Grant’s Daniel Cleaver, who definitively did not die in a plane crash as suggested in Bridget Jones’ Baby (2016), is as outrageous as ever.—
Lily Ford,
The Hollywood Reporter,
29 Jan. 2025
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Thereafter a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
24 Jan. 2025
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Dark comedy Fabula, by Dutch director Michiel ten Horn, about a provincial criminal grappling with personal and professional failures, will open the festival, the first Dutch movie to do so since 2018.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
30 Jan. 2025
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Federal judges take that criminal history into account when deciding a criminal defendant's sentence.—
Tom Dreisbach,
NPR,
30 Jan. 2025
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Yes, this is an obscene price for a Qi wireless charger.—
Julian Chokkattu,
WIRED,
19 Jan. 2025
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Still, justices questioned whether that might put the cost of protecting kids from obscene content online on phone makers like Apple or Google rather than the sites being regulated.—
Ashley Belanger,
Ars Technica,
15 Jan. 2025
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Doe is strictly instructed by Muna not to answer her phone, while arrangements to meet a stranger on the other side to continue their journey sound shady enough even before the man fails to show up.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
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One side of the resort might be shady and firm, the other side might be in the sun and soft!—
Gillian Telling,
People.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Opprobrious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opprobrious. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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