Sunday 26 May 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Opprobrious

op-pro-bri-ous



adj. :: Attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous



adj. :: Infamous; despised; rendered hateful



"The savages went off uttering the wildest denunciations of hostility, mingled with opprobrious terms in broken English, and gesticulations of the most insulting kind." --Irving, Washington

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