Associations to the word «Opprobrious»

Wiktionary

OPPROBRIOUS, adjective. Of or relating to opprobrium.
OPPROBRIOUS, adjective. Tending to cause opprobrium.

Dictionary definition

OPPROBRIOUS, adjective. Expressing offensive reproach.
OPPROBRIOUS, adjective. (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".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne