Opprobrious: alternatives and connections

Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.

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Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.

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Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.

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Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.

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Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language.

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Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language.

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Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.

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Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characte…

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Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man.

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Marked with ignominy; in curring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful.

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Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame, honor, or celebrity; obscure; humble; as, an inglorious life of ease.

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Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow.

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Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation; disgraceful.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.