| a. | 1. | Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; |
| 2. | Infamous; despised; rendered hateful; |
| Adj. | 1. | opprobrious - expressing offensive reproach |
| 2. | opprobrious - (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" |