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adj. First-known usage: 14th century. n. opprobriousness
1. Expressing scorn, contemptuous reproach.
2. Disgrace; shameful or infamous.
First known usage: 14th century
Example of usage – from C.S. Lewis’s Studies in Words
The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt — even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.