approbrious

• Sanjaya, all these words of an approbrious kind which were spoken at the time of the game of dice. —  The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
• Coultam Street, a number of well-dressed young men overheard our conversation, and began to shout after us and call us approbrious names. —  The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe
• To those who came, the sullen and disappointed ones who were about to go uttered approbrious cries: "See the damn fools come! —  The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse
• So many folks said I was bad and naughty, and applied so many other no less approbrious epithets to me that, in time, I came to believe them, and tried somewhat diligently to live up to the reputation they gave me. —  Reveries of a Schoolmaster

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