Adjective: exprobrative
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more exprobrative |
| Superlative | most exprobrative |
Sample Sentences
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All benefites loosing much of their splendor […] that doe beare with them an exprobrative terme of necessitie. [1613, Anthony Sherley, Sir Anthony Sherley: his Relation of his Travels into Persia:]
Adjectives inflected like exprobrative
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From exprobrate + -ive.