BLACKS vs OPPROBRIOUS: NOUN
- 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)
- Black garments, etc.
- A kind of ink in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape and the residue of the wine press.
- Plural form of black.
- (board games) the darker pieces
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BLACKS vs OPPROBRIOUS: ADJECTIVE
- Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- (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
- Distributed or sold illicitly
- 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
- Of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin
- Tending to cause opprobrium.
- Expressing offensive reproach
- (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
- Expressing contemptuous reproach; scornful or abusive.
- Bringing disgrace; shameful or infamous.
- Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous.
- Infamous; despised; rendered hateful.
- Of or relating to opprobrium.
BLACKS vs OPPROBRIOUS: OTHER WORD TYPES
- (noun plural) Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.
- (noun plural) Soot flying in the air.
- (noun plural) The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.
- 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.
BLACKS 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
BLACKS 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
BLACKS vs OPPROBRIOUS: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Altogether, it is noticeable that blacks who killed whites are condemned to death more often than whites who killed blacks.
- They claim that more crimes are committed by blacks than by whites, therefore more blacks get executed.
- He added that free blacks were a bad influence on enslaved blacks, as well as on whites.
- Whites can only avoid coresidence with Blacks if mechanisms exist to keep Blacks out of neighborhoods to which they might otherwise be attracted.
- The labor force of both whites and blacks was augmented by industrial expansion, though whites were more likely to be hired than blacks.
- The difference in the discrimination suffered chiefly by blacks provides a principled basis for differentiating between whites and blacks.
- Ironically, this belief was furthered by the fact that many blacks had pushed for black teachers to teach at blacks schools.
- One of these is the notion that blacks can have an effective ministry only with other blacks.
- And by the way, blacks were often willing to exploit other blacks.
- Existing black marriages were recognized, blacks could testify in court cases involving other blacks, and blacks could own certain kinds of property.
- 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.
BLACKS vs OPPROBRIOUS: QUESTIONS
- Do blacks get preferential treatment in the workplace?
- Which Party historically supported equal rights for blacks?
- Why were free blacks barred from abolitionist societies?
- Should the All Blacks share revenue with opponents?
- Do whites or Blacks see discrimination more widespread?
- Does society still want to discriminate against blacks?
- Is the Conservative movement behind Blacks in America?
- How did Reverse redlining affect working-class blacks?
- What happened to Southern blacks after Reconstruction?
- Why are the New Zealand All Blacks called the All Blacks?
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