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opprobrium Definition

op·pro·brium (ə prōbrē əm)

noun

  1. the disgrace or infamy attached to conduct viewed as grossly shameful
  2. anything bringing shame or disgrace
  3. 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

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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.

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