Opprobrium Definition

ə-prōbrē-əm
noun
The disgrace or infamy attached to conduct viewed as grossly shameful.
Webster's New World
Reproachful contempt for something regarded as inferior.
Webster's New World
A cause of shame or disgrace.
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Origin of Opprobrium

  • First attested 1656, from Latin opprōbrium (“reproach, disgrace"), from opprōbrō (“reproach, taunt"), from ob (“against") + probrum (“disgrace, dishonor").

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin from opprobrāre to reproach ob- against ob– probrum reproach bher-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Opprobrium Sentence Examples

  • Their families also needed to be shielded from public opprobrium.

  • In 1840 he introduced a bill to settle the vexed question of patronage; but disliked by a majority in the general assembly of the Scotch church, and unsupported by the government, it failed to become law, and some opprobrium was cast upon its author.

  • The name was adopted because of the fancied resemblance of the peace party to the venomous copperhead snake, and, though applied as a term of opprobrium, it was willingly assumed by those upon whom it was bestowed.

  • Despite Rose's view that the clearest evidence was of nationalist councils discriminating against Protestants, nationalists attracted little opprobrium.

  • These are of course critical terms of opprobrium which only recently acquired a new meaning and a new vogue.

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