Citations:opprobative

noun: a term that expresses opprobrium, a pejorative

 * 1990, Patrick Colm Hogan, The Politics of Interpretation: Ideology, Professionalism, and the Study of Literature, Oxford University Press (ISBN 9780195362718), page 45:
 * [...] that which is not, say, Marxist, deconstructive, or whatever, is named by an opprobative and characterized as oppressive or patriarchal, naive, and so on.

adjective

 * 1977, John F. Klein, Arthur Montague, Check Forgers, Great Source Education Group Incorporated:
 * Used to describe a check writer, its connotative moral implications are opprobative. On the other hand, the term could readily describe any government or business decision-maker, in which case it not only becomes approbative, it becomes ...