Opprobrium

Word OPPROBRIUM
Character 10
Hyphenation op pro bri um
Pronunciations /əˈpɹoʊbɹi.əm/

Definitions and meanings of "Opprobrium"

What do we mean by opprobrium?

Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy. noun

Scornful reproach or contempt. noun

A cause of shame or disgrace. noun

Imputation of shameful conduct; insulting reproach; contumely; scurrility. noun

Disgrace; infamy. noun

A state of disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; odium{3}. noun

Abusive language. noun

Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy. noun

Scornful reproach or contempt noun

A cause of shame or disgrace. noun

State of disgrace resulting from public abuse noun

A state of extreme dishonor noun

Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy.

Scornful reproach or contempt.

A cause of shame or disgrace.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Opprobrium

The word "opprobrium" in example sentences

Of course, most transgenerational obligations run the other way -- from parents to children -- and of these the most obvious candidate for opprobrium is our wasteful attitude toward the planet's natural resources and ecology. ❋ Kwame Anthony Appiah (2010)

That if worse things mean the opprobrium is excessive, then things less bad — many of which involve talk – mean the opprobrium is too low. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Unless we simply presume a priori that Israelis are evil, I really do not see why the Israelis would want to provoke an attack so that they could kill a handful of passengers and suffer further opprobrium from the rest of the world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The two professors who started all this complained in their op-ed that "George Mason University received over $23 million from Koch brothers foundations to hire seven libertarian professors," as though "libertarian" were a term of opprobrium. ❋ Donald Luskin (2011)

Rather than rain opprobrium on the "inexperienced bicyclists" perhaps it can be stated that there were just too many cyclists. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Whether in a newspaper essay or the mouth of Betsy King, “antifederalist” was a term of opprobrium. ❋ Pauline Maier (2010)

Is this not a big signal to HRC funders: Penn sees HRC's race as sufficiently doomed that it makes sense to him now, net/net, to risk this near-term opprobrium in order to assure future Burson Marsteller business? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The effect of the rehash is to make those who believed in – or claimed to believe in – the forgeries look perhaps marginally less stupid and to shift some of the opprobrium from the Italian authorities to Niger Embassy staff. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In fact, it was coined in Germany only in the second half of the 19th century and was first used in English several decades later with the classical sense of "hetero" "other, different", making it initially a term of opprobrium. ❋ M.D. By ABIGAIL ZUGER (2012)

My late father, the sociologist Michael Young, coined the word "meritocracy" - but as a term of opprobrium rather than approval. ❋ Toby Young (2012)

q: Unless we simply presume a priori that Israelis are evil, I really do not see why the Israelis would want to provoke an attack so that they could kill a handful of passengers and suffer further opprobrium from the rest of the world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Honestly, the force of society’s opprobrium is more effective than any law in fighting prejudice. ❋ Unknown (2010)

DG: Honestly, the force of society’s opprobrium is more effective than any law in fighting prejudice. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I just don’t think — and I’m aware that this might earn me some degree of opprobrium from the readers of this blog — that those distinctions, labeled as they are for the most part, are very useful to the majority of those trying to achieve fluency in English, and might even do more harm than good. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Must be silly: you made a typo, and where you meant to write 'opprobrium' as in, don't dump any on Other Blogger, you wrote 'approbrium' which is funny, because although it's not a word, it should be, and also, it would, if it were a word, mean exactly the opposite of opprobrium and thus might be a Freudian typo! ❋ Unknown (2009)

When this kind of opprobrium is peddled by major media outlets, it's high time that the Democratic establishment and the larger progressive community understand that this is a make-or-break showdown with the media. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One of Hartwell's themes is that the term "space opera" which used to be a term of opprobrium, meaning a cliche-ridden bit of cowboys-and-injuns in space, but with rayguns instead of sixshooters, had been redefined to mean a Doc E.E. Smith style big-idea, large-scale, cosmos-sized romp. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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