adj 1: expressing offensive reproach [syn: abusive, insulting, scornful, scurrilous]
2: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing
disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest
records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel
Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an
opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display
of cowardice" [syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, shameful]