opprobrium

How To Use opprobrium In A Sentence

• Laying over on his long journey south, Grayson found that the failure to decide the location of the future capital, in whatever location, Pennsylvania or the Potomac, “is much reprobated in this City”; much of that opprobrium, naturally, fell on Morris. Robert Morris
• His follow-up picture Assassin premiered at Cannes in 1997 to particularly dismissive critical opprobrium and never earned a release in the UK.
• If all of us punish the new usage with ridicule and opprobrium, maybe we can reverse this loss to language.
• In other words, the name "governmentalism," while intended as a word of opprobrium for socialism, really indicates the amazing misconception which the critics have of the nation itself, and of the relation of the nation's life to its self-direction. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
• Papist," but as far as I can tell, Pise is wrong: "Romanist" appears to be a familiar term of opprobrium in English polemic by the late seventeenth century. Religion
• International opprobrium has been heaped on the country following its attack on its neighbours.
• The couple seem relaxed about the possibility of public opprobrium. Times, Sunday Times
• You get nothing back but opprobrium, abuse, and ostracism.
• Opprobrium from the terraces and beyond was unrelenting.
• Despite his outsider status and the opprobrium it generates, he won't give in.