opprobrious
\uh-PROH-bree-uh s\
adjective
1. outrageously disgraceful or shameful: opprobrious conduct.
2. conveying or expressing opprobrium, as language or a speaker: opprobrious invectives.
Quotes
"The boy is of an outspoken disposition, and had made an opprobrious remark respecting my personal appearance" "What did he say about your appearance?" "I have forgotten, sir," said Jeeves, with a touch of austerity. "But it was opprobrious…"
-- P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves, 1923
Origin
Opprobrious can be traced to the Latin opprobrāre meaning "to reproach; taunt." It entered English in the mid-1300s.
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