Opprobrious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Expressing contemptuous reproach; scornful or abusive: opprobrious epithets.
  • adj. Bringing disgrace; shameful or infamous: opprobrious conduct.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or relating to opprobrium.
  • adj. Tending to cause opprobrium.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous.
  • adj. Infamous; despised; rendered hateful.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Reproachful; expressive of opprobrium or disgrace; contumelious; abusive; scurrilous: as, an opprobrious epithet.
  • Ill-reputed; associated with shame and disgrace; rendered odious; infamous.
  • Synonyms Condemnatory, offensive.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. expressing offensive reproach
  • adj. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
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    reproachful    scurrilous    infamous    despised    abusive   
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