opprobrious
adj/əˈpɹəʊbɹiəs/
Etymology From Middle English opprobrious, from Middle French opprobrieux and its etymon Late Latin opprobriōsus.
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 […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II, page 389:
- 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, season 3, episode 6:
- Derived terms
- opprobriously, opprobriousness