opprobriate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To express opprobrium for or to view with opprobrium; to scorn.
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "There are, no doubt, other bee-keeping nightmares of this ilk, but his term of opprobrium for honey-dew is very opprobriate."
- "I am not using these terms in an opprobriate sense, but simply as terms that are well understood among us."
- "A woman appeared in a Canada court the other day and made complaint that another woman had called her an "opprobriate epithet.""
Etymology
Inflected Forms
opprobriates (present, singular)
opprobriating (participle, present)
opprobriated (participle, past)
opprobriated (past)
more opprobriate (comparative)
most opprobriate (superlative)