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propudious

propudious adjective: shameful, infamous, disgraceful.

Adjective

propudious (comparative more propudious, superlative most propudious)

  1. (obsolete) shameful, infamous, disgraceful
    • Nothing more usual amongst them, (as he there observes,)
      than to hang their rooms with the pictures of their gods
      drawn in the most lascivious and propudious postures,
      engaged in the most filthy and dishonest actions,
      enough to shame intemperance itself.1676, William Cave, Primitive Christianity: or, The religion of the ancient Christians in the first ages of the Gospel

Forms of propudious

comparativemore propudious
superlativemost propudious

Origin of propudious

From Latin prōpudiōsus (“shameful, disgraceful, infamous”), from propudium (“scandal, shameful act; shameful person, wretch”) + -ōsus (“-ose: full of, prone to”), from prō- (“for, to, towards”) + pudēre (“to be ashamed, to cause shame”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).

Questions about propudious

What does propudious mean?
Propudious means shameful, infamous, disgraceful.
What part of speech is propudious?
Propudious is an adjective.

Words near propudious in the dictionary

  1. proptosing
  2. proptosis
  3. proptotic
  4. propubic
  5. propublicity
  6. propudious
  7. propugn
  8. propugnacle
  9. propugnacles
  10. propugnation
  11. propugnations

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