opprobrious

op·pro·bri·ous (

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adj.

1. Expressing contemptuous reproach; scornful or abusive: opprobrious epithets.

2. Bringing disgrace; shameful or infamous: opprobrious conduct.

op·probri·ous·ly adv.

opprobrious [əˈprəʊbrɪəs]

adj

1. expressing scorn, disgrace, or contempt

2. shameful or infamous

opprobriously adv

opprobriousness n

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Adj.	1.	opprobrious - expressing offensive reproach abusive, scurrilous offensive - causing anger or annoyance; "offensive remarks"
	2.	opprobrious - (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" ignominious, inglorious, shameful, disgraceful, black dishonorable, dishonourable - lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor; "dishonorable in thought and deed"

Translations

opprobrious [əˈprəʊbrɪəs] ADJ (frm) → oprobioso

opprobrious

adj invective, remark → verächtlich, schmähend; conduct → schändlich, schandhaft, schimpflich

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abusive
Betrayal
Black
deplorable
deprecatory
disgraceful
disreputable
ignominious
infamous
inglorious
Jesuitic
nefarious
notorious
reprehensible
scandalous
scurrilous
shameful
To call names
vituperative

As they had first landed, they had suffered the first transports of the bassa's passion, who was a violent, tyrannical man, and would have killed his own brother for the least advantage--a temper which made him fly into the utmost rage at seeing us poor, tattered, and almost naked; he treated us with the most opprobrious language, and threatened to cut off our heads.

A Voyage to Abyssinia by Lobo, Father View in context

The savages went off uttering the wildest denunciations of hostility, mingled with opprobrious terms in broken English, and gesticulations of the most insulting kind.

The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context

This confession, though delivered rather in terms of contrition, as it appeared, did not at all mollify Mrs Deborah, who now pronounced a second judgment against her, in more opprobrious language than before; nor had it any better success with the bystanders, who were now grown very numerous.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context

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