Definitions for: Opprobrious


[adj] (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"
[adj] expressing offensive reproach



Webster (1913) Definition: Op*pro"bri*ous, a. [L. opprobriosus, fr.
opprobrium. See Opprobrium.]
1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful;
scurrilous; as, opprobrious language.

They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less
opprobrious than those by which they are attacked.
--Addison.

2. Infamous; despised; rendered hateful; as, an opprobrious
name.

This dark, opprobrious den of shame. --Milton.
-- Op*pro"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Op*pro"bri*ous*ness, n.

Synonyms: abusive, black, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, ignominious, inglorious, insulting, offensive, scornful, scurrilous, shameful

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