Associations to the word «Opprobrious»
Noun
Adverb
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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.