| 释义 |
Definition of opprobrious in English: opprobriousadjective əˈprəʊbrɪəsəˈproʊbriəs (of language) expressing scorn or criticism. （语言）轻蔑的 Example sentencesExamples - While one should deplore the heavy-handed censorship that made the Index of Forbidden Books so opprobrious, no one can wonder why the censors found Hume a prime candidate for that infamous canon.
- In this more recent instance, Atkinson found an opprobrious term rolling nicely off the tongue.
- The term also entered popular journalism of the 1920s and 30s, used of composers as unalike as Varèse and Bartók, generally with opprobrious intent.
- Growing up, it's funny how words get to be opprobrious.
- In short, valuing for the increment added by improvements, if not an everyday occurrence, is by no means so odd as to attract the opprobrious epithet ‘impractical’.
- Sponsors are withdrawing advertisements featuring the couple and websites have been flooded with opprobrious messages.
Synonyms abusive, vituperative, derogatory, disparaging, denigratory, pejorative, deprecatory, insulting, offensive, defamatory, slanderous, libellous, scurrilous, scandalous, vitriolic, venomous scornful, contemptuous, derisive informal bitchy archaic contumelious rare calumnious, calumniatory, aspersive
OriginLate Middle English: from late Latin opprobriosus, from opprobrium (see opprobrium). Definition of opprobrious in US English: opprobriousadjectiveəˈprōbrēəsəˈproʊbriəs (of language) expressing scorn or criticism. （语言）轻蔑的 Example sentencesExamples - While one should deplore the heavy-handed censorship that made the Index of Forbidden Books so opprobrious, no one can wonder why the censors found Hume a prime candidate for that infamous canon.
- In short, valuing for the increment added by improvements, if not an everyday occurrence, is by no means so odd as to attract the opprobrious epithet ‘impractical’.
- The term also entered popular journalism of the 1920s and 30s, used of composers as unalike as Varèse and Bartók, generally with opprobrious intent.
- Growing up, it's funny how words get to be opprobrious.
- Sponsors are withdrawing advertisements featuring the couple and websites have been flooded with opprobrious messages.
- In this more recent instance, Atkinson found an opprobrious term rolling nicely off the tongue.
Synonyms abusive, vituperative, derogatory, disparaging, denigratory, pejorative, deprecatory, insulting, offensive, defamatory, slanderous, libellous, scurrilous, scandalous, vitriolic, venomous
OriginLate Middle English: from late Latin opprobriosus, from opprobrium (see opprobrium). |