opprobrious

Causing opprobrium; offensive and shameful.

Adjective

  1. Causing opprobrium; offensive and shameful.
    • "Don’t speak of my painting before Naumann," said Will. "He will tell you, it is all pfuscherei, which is his most opprobrious word!" - 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XXII, in Middlemarch […],...
    • KLAUS: You're so much nicer than the other one. He was a complete asshole! REGINALD: Such opprobrious language for your father! KLAUS: Yeah, I… I don't know what that means. - 2022, “Marigold”, in The Umbrella Academy,...

Origin

From Middle English opprobrious, from Middle French opprobrieux and its etymon Late Latin opprobriōsus.

Forms

more opprobrious most opprobrious

Derived

opprobriously opprobriousness