Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Expressing contemptuous reproach; scornful or abusive: opprobrious epithets.
- adj. Bringing disgrace; shameful or infamous: opprobrious conduct.
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.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or relating to opprobrium.
- adj. Tending to cause opprobrium.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous.
- adj. Infamous; despised; rendered hateful.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. expressing offensive reproach
- adj. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
Examples
“_Castlereagh_, was Lord _Clare_, Chancellor of Ireland, who used also to call men {64} with three names by a term opprobrious among the Romans:”
“But the little children and dirt-pie manufacturers were presently succeeded by followers of a larger growth, and a number of lads and girls from the factory being let loose at this hour, joined the mob, and began laughing, jeering, hooting, and calling opprobrious names at the Frenchman.”
“Page 76: 'opprobious' corrected to 'opprobrious'. (in terms opprobrious they mouth).”
“The usual way to do this is to fling vile epithets, to call opprobrious names, to make shameful charges.”
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
“I have been called opprobrious names by a sergeant of”
“Mrs. Cranston wrote fiercely and frequently to Agatha, and, for aught I know, called her opprobrious things.”
“Just as the peaceful country-dweller calls the sea-rover a "pirate," and the stout burgher calls the man who breaks into his strong-box a "robber," so the selfish laborer applies the opprobrious epithet "scab" to the laborer who takes from him food and shelter by being more generous in the disposal of his labor-power.”
“In such cases Worth turned to the opprobrious but proven methods of Thomas Jesup.”
“We need to move beyond tut-tutting his opprobrious behavior and figure out a way to undermine or neutralize this very typical strategy of the right wing attack dogs.”
“While the legislation that ended the hypocritical DADT policy was surely welcome and a step forward, and although legislation already existed (the 1994 Solomon Act) that forced universities to open their campuses to military recruiters, the president made a mistake in equating (even implicitly) an end to an opprobrious military policy with basic equal civil rights for gay and lesbian Americans.”
The Huffington Post: Jonathan R. Cole: Gay Rights and University ROTC Policy
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Casey "She was dressed carefully. Dirty and torn clothes, no hint of money to attract unwanted attention in the Fenn, but not so fouled as to attract the opprobrious wrath of travelers in The Crow, where she had started her journey." From Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Dec 4, 2011