Meaning of OPPROBRIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | u'prowbreeus
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | abusive, black, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, ignominious, inglorious, insulting, offensive, scornful, scurrilous, shameful |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | 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.
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