approbrious

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 Francis B. Pearson

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 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

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 Henry Woodcock

When this demand is not immediately complied with, they insult the unorganized workers by the use of approbrious names which have found a place in scientific terminology.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

I was never persecuted, or abused, or called by approbrious epithets in my hearing after my first year.

The colored cadet at West Point : autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., first graduate of color from the U. S. Military Academy, 1878

I was never persecuted, or abused, or called by approbrious epithets in my hearing after my first year.

Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point Flipper, Henry O 1878

The warriors from the housetops poured the most approbrious epithets on him as he passed, denouncing him as false-hearted traitor; false to his country and his blood, - reproaches not altogether unmerited, as his kinsman, who chronicles the circumstance, candidly confesses.

History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes 1843

& approbrious epithets thrown out againt it, there are16 about fifteen or twenty students who are going to join, for how long a time it is to be established I do not know, but I suspect it will continue for one year or through Colledge course, & then it will be renewed again, upon the whole the students do not drink half so much as they formerly did, yet there are more squibs17

Letter from Solomon Lea to Lorenzo Lea, September 1, 1829 1829

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 Hamlin Garland 1900