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Recent Examples of opprobrious Honor is not, in Mr. Sommers’s view, without its opprobrious aspects, not least its association with violence. Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for opprobrious
Adjective
  • Huge Fed Challenge—Sparking Stock Market Plunge As Gold And Bitcoin Price Soar New Gmail Warning — Do Not Open This Email From Google Cena called out fans for being abusive, only to cheer for Heel Cena without apologizing.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Spanking’s impact on a child is unfortunately similar to abusive hitting.
    Christina Erickson, The Conversation, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Third-party cookies are notorious for helping analytics firms and advertisers track users’ activities, potentially violating their online privacy.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
  • El Salvador's top Catholic leader on Sunday urged President Nayib Bukele not to turn the country into a Guantanamo-style U.S. prison, after Bukele made a deal with Washington to house deported migrants from the United States in a notorious jail.
    CBS News, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Now, however, Memrise charges $59.99 per month, which is insulting.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 16 Apr. 2025
  • To compare the incident to a possible leak of a football game plan is insulting to the U.S. military members who secure and safeguard our personal freedom each and every day.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Returning to Churchill after his infamous two-year-plus-one-year Churchill ban dating from Medina Spirit’s 2021 betamethasone disqualification, Baffert was buoyant about the work.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Suggestions that Marseille’s players had refused to train inevitably resurrected memories of the infamous training-ground strike at the South African resort of Knysna that contributed to the France national team’s spectacular derailment at the 2010 World Cup.
    Tom Williams, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Waters’ career has been defined by his fearless — often outrageous — approach to spotlighting LGBTQ+ actors and themes.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Amending the Constitution would not happen overnight, but starting the process would most definitely put the spotlight on Trump and the outrageous historical precedents set by those who came before him, which have helped to make our current national crisis not only possible but perhaps inevitable.
    Patrick Eddington, Oc Register, 20 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Karen Read’s attorneys are taking an approach of highlighting inconsistencies in the testimony of witnesses involved in the case, according to Sydney Rushing, a criminal defense attorney based in Michigan offering analysis on TikTok.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Cadwalader is the former law firm of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who served as the president's former criminal defense attorney in 2024 before joining the current administration.
    John Parkinson, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • This social justice kitsch becomes a mildly obscene evocation of racial terrorism.
    Armond White, National Review, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Fifteen years after her husband’s drowning in the nearby bay, Tressilian’s days are spent in a cranky routine: grumbling over the obscene resort stationed on the opposite bluff, reading London’s gossip columns, and summoning the household help with the insistent ringing of a bedroom call bell.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The mood shifts from shady to straight-up scandalous.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Instead, Fenix lost the biggest match of his young WWE career, albeit under shady circumstances, while Americano picked up a WrestleMania win.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025

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“Opprobrious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opprobrious. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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