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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OPPRO'BRIOUS, a. [See Opprobrium.]
1. Reproachful and contemptuous; scurrilous; as opprobrious language; opprobrious words or terms.
2. Blasted with infamy; despised; rendered hateful; as an opprobrious name.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: expressing offensive reproach [syn: abusive, opprobrious, scurrilous]
2: (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" [syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century 1. expressive of opprobrium ; scurrilous <opprobrious language> 2. deserving of opprobrium ; infamous • opprobriously adverb • opprobriousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (of language) severely scornful; abusive. Derivatives: opprobriously adv. Etymology: ME f. LL opprobriosus (as OPPROBRIUM)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Opprobrious 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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Reproachful, scurrilous, abusive, vituperative, insolent, condemnatory, damnatory, scandalous, contemptuous, offensive, insulting. 2. Infamous, despised, shameful, dishonorable, disgraceful, disreputable, hateful.