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  1. Expressing slander

    scurrilous, slanderous, abusive, insulting, libeling, defamatory, defaming, shaming, reproaching, offending, dishonoring, disgracing, pejorative, abasing, humiliating, calumniating, damaging, injuring, injurious, hurting, causing disrepute, maligning, detractive, derogative, disparaging, depreciative, debasing, denigrating, vituperative, spiteful, contumelious, reviling, malevolent, malignant, malign, despiteful; see also embarrassing, insulting.

    Antonyms appreciative*, praising, eulogizing.

  2. Involving slander

    hateful, infamous, disgraceful, scandalous, vulgar, vile, abusive, ignoble, contemptuous, ignominious, dishonorable, base, libelous, defamatory, odious, atrocious, detestable, malicious, abominable, nefarious, ill-willed, heinous, outrageous, shocking, flagrant, execrable; see also offensive 2, shameful 1, 2.

    Antonyms friendly*, honorable, commendable.

See opprobrious in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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