Word of the Day – Opprobrious

• Adjective:  Opprobrious
  1. conveying or expressing opprobrium ( harsh criticism or censure), as language or a speaker: opprobrious invectives.
  2. outrageously disgraceful or shameful:  opprobrious conduct
• Synonyms:
  1.   abusive
  2. contumelious
  3. invective
  4. scurrilous
  5. truculent
  6. vitriolic
  7. vituperative
  8. vituperatory
  9. wee what a list of words…several Words of the Day in there
• Usage:
  1. “’It does Mr. Peters,’ says she. ‘I might have known you wouldn’t have gone into anything that wasn’t opprobrious. But what will my duties be? Do I have to reject personally these 3,000 ramscallions you speak of, or can I throw them out in bunches?’”
• Encountered:
  1. While reading O. Henry’s short story, The Exact Science of Matrimony

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Just as an aside, I have spent 50 or 60 years thinking William Sydney Porter’s pen name was O’Henry not O. Henry.  Live and learn.   I’ll let you figure out what the O stands for.