opprobrious

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

OPPRO'BRIOUS, adjective [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.
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