Usually means: Expressing scorn or criticism harshly.
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  1. opprobrious: Merriam-Webster
  2. opprobrious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. opprobrious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. opprobrious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. opprobrious: Vocabulary.com
  6. opprobrious: Wordnik
  7. opprobrious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. opprobrious: Wiktionary
  9. opprobrious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. opprobrious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. opprobrious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Opprobrious, opprobrious: Dictionary.com
  13. opprobrious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Opprobrious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. opprobrious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. opprobrious: Rhymezone
  17. Opprobrious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. opprobrious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. opprobrious: FreeDictionary.org
  20. opprobrious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. opprobrious: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. opprobrious: Legal dictionary

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  1. opprobrious: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (opprobrious)

▸ adjective:  Causing opprobrium; offensive and shameful.

Similar:
inglorious, disgraceful, ignominious, shameful, scornful, insulting, offensive, abusive, dishonourable, scurrilous, more...

Opposite:
laudable, commendable, praiseworthy

Types:
vituperative, scurrilous, libelous, defamatory, slanderous, more...

Colors:
    dark red,     maroon,     burgundy,     crimson,     scarlet, more...
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Similar:
inglorious, disgraceful, ignominious, shameful, scornful, insulting, offensive, abusive, dishonourable, scurrilous, more...

Opposite:
laudable, commendable, praiseworthy

Types:
vituperative, scurrilous, libelous, defamatory, slanderous, more...

Colors:
    dark red,     maroon,     burgundy,     crimson,     scarlet, more...



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