OPPROBRIOUS
black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful
(adjective) (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”
abusive, opprobrious, scurrilous
(adjective) expressing offensive reproach
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
opprobrious (comparative more opprobrious, superlative most opprobrious)
Of or relating to opprobrium or disgrace.
Tending to cause opprobrium.
Source: Wiktionary
Op*pro"bri*ous, a. Etym: [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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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