BLACK vs OPPROBRIOUS: NOUN
- (board games) the darker pieces
- The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
- A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
- Popular child actress of the 1930's (born 1927)
- British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
- Total absence of light
- Black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
- The achromatic color value of minimum lightness or maximum darkness; the color of objects that absorb nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; one extreme of the neutral gray series, the opposite being white. Although strictly a response to zero stimulation of the retina, the perception of black appears to depend on contrast with surrounding color stimuli.
- Complete or almost complete absence of light; darkness.
- Clothing of the darkest hue, especially such clothing worn for mourning.
- A member of a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin.
- An American descended from peoples of African origin having brown to black skin; an African American.
- Something that is colored black.
- The black-colored pieces, as in chess or checkers.
- The player using these pieces.
- The condition of making or operating at a profit.
- A pigment or dye having this color value.
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BLACK vs OPPROBRIOUS: ADJECTIVE
- Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.
- Having little or no light.
- Of or belonging to an American ethnic group descended from African peoples having dark skin; African-American.
- Very dark in color.
- Being a trail, as for skiing, marked with a sign having a black diamond, indicating a high level of difficulty.
- Soiled, as from soot; dirty.
- Evil; wicked.
- Cheerless and depressing; gloomy.
- Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor.
- Marked by anger or sullenness.
- Deserving of, indicating, or incurring censure or dishonor.
- Distributed or sold illicitly
- (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
- (of coffee) without cream or sugar
- Dressed in black
- Soiled with dirt or soot
- (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
- Being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
- Extremely dark
- Of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin
- Marked by anger or resentment or hostility
- Harshly ironic or sinister
- (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
- Offering little or no hope
- (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
- Attended with disaster; calamitous.
- Wearing clothing of the darkest visual hue.
- Served without milk or cream.
- Appearing to emanate from a source other than the actual point of origin. Used chiefly of intelligence operations.
- Disclosed, for reasons of security, only to an extremely limited number of authorized persons; very highly classified.
- Boycotted as part of a labor union action.
- Of or relating to opprobrium.
- Infamous; despised; rendered hateful.
- Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous.
- Bringing disgrace; shameful or infamous.
- Expressing contemptuous reproach; scornful or abusive.
- (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
- Expressing offensive reproach
- Tending to cause opprobrium.
BLACK vs OPPROBRIOUS: VERB
- Make or become black
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BLACK vs OPPROBRIOUS: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To become black.
- To boycott as part of a labor union action.
- To make black.
- To apply blacking to.
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BLACK vs OPPROBRIOUS: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To make black; blacken or put a black color on; soil; stain: as, to black one's hands.
- To clean and polish (shoes, etc.) by blacking and brushing them.
- To blacken; stain; sully; defame.
- To become black; take on a black color.
- Bringing ruin
- Wicked or dishonorable
- A person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
- Dark-complexioned.
- To poach. See black, n., 8.
- Synonyms Condemnatory, offensive.
- Ill-reputed; associated with shame and disgrace; rendered odious; infamous.
- Reproachful; expressive of opprobrium or disgrace; contumelious; abusive; scurrilous: as, an opprobrious epithet.
BLACK vs OPPROBRIOUS: RELATED WORDS
- Evil, Angry, Opprobrious, Dim, Dirty, Colorful, Blackened, Clothed, Achromatic, Achromatic, Clad, Negroid, Dark, Negro, Colored
- Reprehensible, Loathsome, Contemptible, Offensive, Black, Abusive, Inglorious, Scornful, Ignominious, Insulting, Dishonourable, Scurrilous, Disgraceful, Dishonorable, Shameful
BLACK vs OPPROBRIOUS: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Evil, Angry, Opprobrious, Dim, Dirty, Colorful, Blackened, Clothed, Achromatic, Achromatic, Clad, Negroid, Dark, Negro, Colored
- Reprehensible, Loathsome, Contemptible, Offensive, Black, Abusive, Inglorious, Scornful, Ignominious, Insulting, Dishonourable, Scurrilous, Disgraceful, Dishonorable, Shameful
BLACK vs OPPROBRIOUS: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- This week at my house I have a black dog, gray cat, and two black horses.
- The black tabletop, black ceramics, and white cabinetry look fabulous against a backdrop of natural wood.
- Blacks began to boycott businesses in black neighborhoods that would not hire black workers.
- Buttercup and barnevelder chicks are brown with black markings and black ameraucana chicks are black and white.
- The Silkie bird is black throughout: skin, muscles and bones are all black.
- COLOR: White clock face with black numbers and black mounting frame.
- OHA percent black households are located in predominantly black census tracts.
- Chicago and stop the black on black crime?
- White indentured servants, free black servants, free black children of indentured servants, free black servants turned black slave owners, and so forth.
- The Mezzo has multiple viewing modes, including black on white, white on black, green on black, yellow on black and yellow on blue.
- Disrespect by words may be conveyed by opprobrious epithets or other contumelious or denunciatory language.
- Johnson used was not so opprobrious or inherently abusive that it threatened an immediate breach of the peace and thus constituted fighting words.
- In an instant He has the clear vision of every detail of his painful and opprobrious passion.
- Phil had an extensive and very expressive vocabulary of opprobrious language, more than a retired Parris Island drill instructor.
- The illegality does not necessarily make the extractive practices more destructive or morally opprobrious.
- However, the term was not used in such a manner as to convey any opprobrious or sinister implications.
- The crowd approached the main guard with angry and opprobrious taunts.
- Horton cuts off, breaks up, and pitches away, dubbing it by the opprobrious name of sacerdotalism.
- Suppose she had used the same opprobrious terms to insult our mother or Fiona.
- That only shows the effect of nursing prejudice by using foolish opprobrious nicknames.
BLACK vs OPPROBRIOUS: QUESTIONS
- What did the Royal Black Institution say about the Black Saturday incident?
- Why does Mr Hooper wear a black veil in the Minister's Black Veil?
- Is not acting black the most important rule for dating a black woman?
- Can Monistat for black hair growth be mixed with Jamaican black castor oil?
- How do you find the black height of a red black tree?
- Is Djarum Black cigars the same as djarums black clove cigarettes?
- Why does my black justified order ship with a black band?
- Is Dorea black related to Sirius Black and James Potter?
- What is the black market in Black Ops 3 multiplayer?
- Are black gram whole lentils the same as black beans?
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