The use of lrcoOac to mean "policemen" at Athens, and still more closely the German, French and English word "slave" derived from "Slav"), than that the tribe when living in territory it could call its own should have adopted an opprobrious name taken from the language of hostile neighbours (see Strabo vi. [adjective]
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This has been misunderstood in many ways - the mistake going so far as in some cases to suppose that Voltaire meant Christ by this opprobrious expression. [adjective]
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He accordingly, with many opprobrious invectives, bade me defiance, and offered to box me for twenty guineas. [adjective]
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He called the panther every opprobrious name that fell to his tongue. [Please select]
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I have been called opprobrious names by a sergeant of British lancers, out of great jealousy. [Please select]
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As they passed out, Cromwell shouted "drunkard," "glutton," "extortioner," with other opprobrious names. [Please select]
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One might as well cast the opprobrious text in the face of the moon and stars. [Please select]
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Only one of them set this forth in conspicuous and opprobrious terms: "Her Third Husband." [Please select]
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Then he stood up, and asked who had written the opprobrious epithet on the wall. [Please select]
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If there was one word in Linda's vocabulary more opprobrious than "nerves," which could be applied to a woman, it was "hysterics." [Please select]
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An opprobrious, and perhaps the commonest expletive In the language, amounting to a request for details of the objurgee's female ancestry. [Please select]
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