Main entry: disgraceful, shameful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, black
Definition: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
Usage: 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
Main entry: opprobrious, scurrilous, abusive
Definition: expressing offensive reproach