- the
great coronation ceremony of Yudhishthira, as a
punishment for his
opprobrious abuse made
against him. He is also
referred to as
Chaidya ("King of Chedi")...
- reprimanded", in part for "inveighing
against [officials] with
insulting and
opprobrious language".
While Schubert never saw Senn again, he did set some of his...
-
connects "go Dutch" / "Dutch treat" to
other phrases which have "an
opprobrious or
derisive application,
largely due to the
rivalry and
enmity between...
- vicinity.
Writing in 1904,
journalist Clifton Johnson do****ented the "
opprobrious"
character of the word ****,
emphasizing that it was
chosen in the...
- "Our
French friends shouted and
shrieked and
gesticulated and
hurled opprobrious names at
Louis Napoleon and
cursed his helpers, and
danced the Carmagnole...
- by "throwing [people] into a
glowing pit of fire,
whence he had the
opprobrious appellation of the Lord of the Pit." In the
Koran itself, in Sura (Chapter)...
- be uncir****cised. The
plural term
arelim ("uncir****cised") is used
opprobriously,
denoting the
Philistines and
other non-Israelites and used in conjunction...
- the
ingroup and the outgroup." For example,
Matisoff notes,
Khang "an
opprobrious term
indicating mixed race or parentage" is the
Palaung name for Jingpo...
-
marriage to an
aggressive and
disrespectful man
turned out to be
quite opprobrious and abusive,
resulting in a divorce. Her most
successful relationship...
- man
appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave,
without using any of
those opprobrious terms? … The
character of
Zimri in my Absalom, is, in my opinion, worth...
