Sample Sentences foropprobrium (auto-selected)
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The article about McCandless in Outside generated a large volume of mail, and not a few of the letters heaped opprobrium on McCandless, and on me, as well, the author of the story, for glorifying what some thought was a foolish, pointless death.† (source)
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Certainly there were plenty of Guatemalans in California, and certainly they would be more than happy to have a trophy like Mae, to punish her for her opprobrium.† (source)
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My head still ached and bled with the blow and fall I had received: no one had reproved John for wantonly striking me; and because I had turned against him to avert farther irrational violence, I was loaded with general opprobrium.† (source)
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I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory.† (source)
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Health, youth, honor, all the shy delicacies of the young body, the heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated in sinister wise by that fumbling which seeks resources, which encounters opprobrium, and which accomodates itself to it.† (source)
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Many of the slang words are our best; slang words among fighting men, gamblers, thieves, are powerful words.... The appetite of the people of These States, in popular speeches and writings, is for unhemmed latitude, coarseness, directness, live epithets, expletives, words of opprobrium, resistance.† (source)
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—Sent to school, 'where,' he told Grandfather, 'I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.† (source)
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Joe Odom would be the man on the spot for a change, the man on the receiving end of the opprobrious glances.† (source)
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It has in it precisely the boldness and disdain of ordered forms that are so characteristically American, and it has too the grotesque humor of the country, and the delight in devastating opprobriums, and the acute feeling for the succinct and savory.† (source)
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Think you, my lord, this little prating York Was not incensed by his subtle mother To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously?† (source)
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After all, half the opprobrium of such an act lies in the name attached to it.† (source)
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As Ted inspected the house with an opprobrious tilt to his nose and something vaguely militaristic in his inspection tour of the damp bedrooms, he stopped suddenly in front of a poster and stared at it.† (source)
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Multitudes of drivers might howl in his rear, and passengers might load him with opprobrium, he would not awaken until some blue policeman turned red and began to frenziedly tear bridles and beat the soft noses of the responsible horses.† (source)
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There was nobody there to speak to him; but, as he passed, the prisoners fell back to render him more visible to the people who were clinging to the bars: and they assailed him with opprobrious names, and screeched and hissed.† (source)
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But her silence shrouded her resistant emotion into a more thorough glow; and this misfortune in Will's lot which, it seemed, others were wishing to fling at his back as an opprobrium, only gave something more of enthusiasm to her clinging thought.† (source)
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She kept on, with hysterical violence, shouting at him an opprobrious, filthy epithet.† (source)
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