📚 Opprobrious, adjective. 🔉 /əˈprəʊbrɪəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (of language) expressing scorn or criticism. ❗️ Examples: 1. Opprobrious remarks. 2. Sponsors are withdrawing advertisements featuring the couple and websites have been flooded with opprobrious messages. 3. 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’. 4. The term also entered popular journalism of the 1920s and 30s, used of composers as unalike as Varèse and Bartók, generally with opprobrious intent. 5. Growing up, it's funny how words get to be opprobrious. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic