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• s  expressing offensive reproach
• s  (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
  an opprobrious monument to human greed

• The use of opprobrious terms to describe a church will not make new friends for your magazine, and it may lose many.
• Its Associate Editor Walter Hart Blumenthal last February flayed the Crowell company for perpetrating Roget's opprobrious connotations of the word Jew: cunning, usurer, rich .
• He sings an opprobrious song, As we go along, Working in Wall Street bailout wonderland.

• abusive
• scurrilous
• black
• disgraceful
• ignominious
• inglorious
• shameful