All opprobrious synonyms

adjective opprobrious

• scornful — full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
• contemptuous — If you are contemptuous of someone or something, you do not like or respect them at all.
• excoriating — Present participle of excoriate.
• damning — If you describe evidence or a report as damning, you mean that it suggests very strongly that someone is guilty of a crime or has made a serious mistake.
• reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
• dismissive — indicating dismissal or rejection; having the purpose or effect of dismissing, as from one's presence or from consideration: a curt, dismissive gesture.
• critical — If a person is critical or in a critical condition in hospital, they are seriously ill.
• censorious — If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.
• disapproving — Expressing an unfavorable opinion.
• abusive — Someone who is abusive behaves in a cruel and violent way towards other people.
• hateful — arousing hate or deserving to be hated: the hateful oppression of dictators.
• abasing — Present participle of abase.
• calumniatory — of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
• contumelious — rude in a contemptuous way; insulting and humiliating
• damaging — causing or capable of causing damages; harmful; injurious.
• debasing — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
• defamatory — Speech or writing that is defamatory is likely to damage someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
• defaming — to attack the good name or reputation of, as by uttering or publishing maliciously or falsely anything injurious; slander or libel; calumniate: The newspaper editorial defamed the politician.
• denigrating — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
• depreciative — Tending to depreciate (in value etc.).
• derogative — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
• despicable — If you say that a person or action is despicable, you are emphasizing that they are extremely nasty, cruel, or evil.
• despiteful — spiteful; malicious
• detractive — tending or seeking to detract.
• disgracing — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
• dishonouring — Present participle of dishonour.
• dishonoring — Present participle of dishonor.
• disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
• humiliating — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
• hurting — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• injuring — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
• injurious — harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect: injurious eating habits.
• insolent — boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting: an insolent reply.
• insulting — giving or causing insult; characterized by affronting rudeness, insolence, etc.
• invective — vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.
• libelling — Present participle of libel.
• libeling — Law. defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures. the act or crime of publishing it. a formal written declaration or statement, as one containing the allegations of a plaintiff or the grounds of a charge.
• malevolent — wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
• malign — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
• malignant — disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
• maligning — to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame: to malign an honorable man.
• notorious — widely and unfavorably known: a notorious gambler. Synonyms: infamous, egregious, outrageous, arrant, flagrant, disreputable.
• offending — Present participle of offend.
• offensive — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
• pejorative — having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force: the pejorative affix -ling in princeling.
• reviling — to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
• scandalous — disgraceful; shameful or shocking; improper: scandalous behavior in public.
• scurrilous — grossly or obscenely abusive: a scurrilous attack on the mayor.
• shaming — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
• spiteful — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.