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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