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opprobrious
adjective
a couple of students shouted opprobrious remarks at him:
abusive, vituperative, derogatory, disparaging, denigratory, pejorative, deprecatory, insulting, offensive, defamatory, slanderous, libellous, scurrilous, scandalous, vitriolic, venomous;
scornful, contemptuous, derisive;
informal bitchy;
archaic contumelious;
rare calumnious, calumniatory, aspersive.
opprobrious Oxford Dictionary of English