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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.