opprobrium
opprobrium
Definition
op·pro·brium (ə prō′brē əm)
noun
- the disgrace or infamy attached to conduct viewed as grossly shameful
- anything bringing shame or disgrace
- reproachful contempt for something regarded as inferior
Etymology: L < opprobrare, to reproach < ob- (see ob-) + probrum, a disgrace < pro- (see pro-) + *bhrom < base of ferre, bear, formed after Gr propherein, to bring forward, allege, reproach
opprobrium
Synonyms
opprobrium
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- attract: The antithesis - batting first and getting rolled over - rarely seems to attract similar opprobrium.
- suffer: Practices which have been less attentive may be less likely to suffer the opprobrium of the RCVS.
- face: This was all whilst facing the opprobrium of his superiors as he defended the rights of the Masai.
- heap: Hurrah for Don Paterson, who has heaped much-deserved opprobrium on the head of Harold Pinter.
- deserve: Like any profession, architecture has its villains and they deserve opprobrium.
- bring: This affair brought not the least opprobrium, not only upon Cyril, but also upon the whole Alexandrian church.
Adjective modifier
- public: Their families also needed to be shielded from public opprobrium.
- such: Wasn't this exactly the sort of thing that earned Microsoft such vicious opprobrium in the nineties?
- same: These people should be remembered with the same opprobrium as Benedict Arnold is by the people of the United States.
- similar: No similar opprobrium, by the way, attaches to Gulag denial.
- special: But they did not single me out for special opprobrium.
- little: Despite Rose's view that the clearest evidence was of nationalist councils discriminating against Protestants, nationalists attracted little opprobrium.
Browse dictionary entries near opprobrium
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