Meaning of opprobriate | Babel Free

Definitions

To express opprobrium for or to view with opprobrium; to scorn.

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Examples

“It is admitted by all men endowed with that nervous susceptibility of body and soul which the ill-natured opprobriate by the name⟳ of jealousy, that nothing can be more trying to a husband afflicted with this distemperature, than to see⟳ the idol of his bosom dance⟳, for the first time after her marriage, with another man.”

“you, without just cause or reasonable excuse⟳, participated in and directed a previously planned public demonstration designed to opprobriate the participation of the United States Government in the affairs of the Dominican Republic.”

“Shylock's famous line 'My daughter! O my ducats' (2.7.15) is frequently used to isolate and opprobriate him.”

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