Opprobrious meaning

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Deserving opprobrium; disgraceful.
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The definition of opprobrious is something that is disrespectful or that expresses shame or disgrace.

Harsh, scolding words or shouts delivered as part of a lecture are an example of words that would be described as opprobrious.

Being incredibly rude and refusing to engage in any of the polite social customs when you attend a wedding is an example of opprobrious behavior.

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Expressing contemptuous reproach; scornful or abusive.

Opprobrious epithets.

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Bringing disgrace; shameful or infamous.

Opprobrious conduct.

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Expressing opprobrium; abusive; disrespectful.
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Of or relating to opprobrium.
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Tending to cause opprobrium.
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Opprobrious Sentence Examples

  • Often the women joined in, and as they bid excitedly against each other the church rang with opprobrious epithets.

  • This has been misunderstood in many ways - the mistake going so far as in some cases to suppose that Voltaire meant Christ by this opprobrious expression.

  • They spent their energy in attacking Plato and Aristotle, and hence earned the opprobrious epithet of Eristic. They used their dialectic subtlety to disprove the possibility of motion and decay; unity is the negation of change, increase and decrease, birth and death.

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