"Everyone who contradicted him," wrote one of Marx's contemporaries, "he treated with abject contempt; every argument that he did not like he answered either with biting scorn at the unfathomable ignorance that had prompted it, or with opprobrious aspersions upon the motives of him who had advanced it".
It is hard to disagree that the candidates are "uninspiring" and "unappealing" although more opprobrious epithets could be used.
Usage recognizes no clear distinction between logistic and nonlogistic services, but a somewhat blurred one has grown out of the traditional and opprobrious identification of logistics with noncombat rear-area activities.
And vessels of noxious cargo, like nuclear waste, or of dubious skipperdom, like rusting freighters full of duped refugees, might earn an opprobrious capitalization: It.
The book was in proof the week of 9/11 and Sanders considered removing these opprobrious references, but wisely decided this would distort the way Manhattan was perceived by both himself and his readers.
But how hard to make a Man appear a Fool, a Blockhead, or a Knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Which opprobrious youth cult will catch his eagle eye next?
The Suffolk County judge Jeffrey Spinner ruled in court that OneWest's conduct was "inequitable, unconscionable, vexatious and opprobrious" for the way it treated a Long Island couple in 2009.
The words "Tory" and "Whig" entered the language as highly opprobrious slurs, but were later adopted by the parties to which they referred.
For nationalistic bias is opprobrious only if judged in terms of the standard of universalism… Thus by the very process of condemning their violation, the mores are reaffirmed" (1968, 8).
In contrast, an individual who fails in his striving in the Akan community may be judged as onipa hun, which literally means "useless person," an opprobrious expression.
