It is now freely applied as an adjective of an opprobrious kind.
目前它被任意用作一种骂人的形容词.
辞典例句
He ransacked his extensive vocabulary in order to find opprobrious names to call her.
他从他的丰富词汇中挑出所有难听的话来骂她.
辞典例句
"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"