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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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The rich, the poor, the high professor and the prophane, seem all to be infected with this grievous disorder, so that the love of our neighbor seems to be quite banished, the love of self and opinions so far prevails......The [Tory] enemies of our present struggle ....are grown even scurrilous to individuals, and treat all characters who differ from them with the most opprobrious language.† (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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She kept on, with hysterical violence, shouting at him an opprobrious, filthy epithet.† (source)
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He will tell you, it is all pfuscherei, which is his most opprobrious word!† (source)
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On no fewer than four occasions the police were called in to receive denunciations of Mr Meagles as a Knight of Industry, a good-for-nothing, and a thief, all of which opprobrious language he bore with the best temper (having no idea what it meant), and was in the most ignominious manner escorted to steam-boats and public carriages, to be got rid of, talking all the while, like a cheerful and fluent Briton as he was, with Mother under his arm.† (source)
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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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The housekeeper retired, with a manner but little less dignified, as she thought, than the air of the heiress, muttering as she drew the door after her, with a noise like the report of a musket, the opprobrious terms of "drunkard,"† (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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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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[17] Honor cometh to the female race; no longer shall opprobrious fame oppress the women† (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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Take such dismission now as thou deserv'st, Opprobrious!† (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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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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