meaning of opprobrious
1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language.
2. Infamous; despised; rendered hateful; as, an opprobrious name.
3. 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
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