OPPROBRIUM | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of opprobrium in English

(Definition of opprobrium from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of opprobrium

opprobrium
After privatization, fulfilling these duties became a voluntary matter, with social opprobrium the sole penalty for non-compliance.
If caught, he faces both formal punishment and social opprobrium.
From a term of opprobrium profitability became cause for emulation, while nationalisation fell into ill-repute.
Society is selective, however, in casting the opprobrium.
In his old age he was taking advantage of the law as frequently and to better effect, but had discovered how to make others shoulder the expense and opprobrium.
Keyhole surgery has also been subject to opprobrium.
A counterfeit voice, by definition inauthentic, will assuredly invite the opprobrium of jazz musicians, who equate imitation with the assumption of an identity not one's own.
While we can accept robbery with a reasonable degree of equanimity, it seems a little hard that opprobrium should be added to it.
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They are, in effect, washing their hands of the issue, so that the courts can take any opprobrium that might flow from the legislation.
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I am not convinced that the term "dictator" is a term of opprobrium.
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This law, which has been held up to opprobrium this afternoon, is his own work.
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It broke its judicial oaths of allegiance, and for that it deserves ever-lasting opprobrium.
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Remissions of burdens to workpeople, employers and taxpayers ought never to be described by any responsible person in terms of unmeasured opprobrium.
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To call her a pale with all the opprobrium that attaches to the word is not fair.
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It exposes the whole agricultural industry to opprobrium when two or three farmers, perhaps in a district, cultivate their land badly.
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Translations of opprobrium

in Chinese (Traditional)
譴責, 抨擊, 討伐…
in Chinese (Simplified)
谴责, 抨击, 挞伐…
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