Opprobriate

Quick meaning: Opprobriate is a verb meaning To express opprobrium for or to view with opprobrium; to scorn.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Expressing opprobrium; disparaging.

Example Sentences

I am not using these terms in an opprobriate sense, but simply as terms that are well understood among us.

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

There are, no doubt, other bee-keeping nightmares of this ilk, but his term of opprobrium for honey-dew is very opprobriate.

A woman appeared in a Canada court the other day and made complaint that another woman had called her an "opprobriate epithet."

Word Forms

• opprobriates
• opprobriating
• opprobriated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reprobate, despise, reproach, execrate, despect, scorn.

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