opprobrium

Example Sentences

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The opprobrium that ensued in the course of a shamelessly one-sided trial shredded their reputations, cost them their jobs and led to an incurable banishment from public life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

But that level of public scrutiny - even opprobrium - is likely to pale in comparison with what's to come.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

For that reason, I’m constantly amazed and grateful, given that this column relies on people sharing their stories and risking opprobrium from strangers by asking for advice.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 2025

Yet OpenAI’s reportedly aggressive actions in courting ScarJo’s voice and then pressing ahead without her consent have invited a new level of public opprobrium against the otherwise popular app-maker.

From Slate • May 21, 2024

He would reap the full benefit of the transaction when it was completed, whilst his tools in Ireland were laying in a harvest of opprobrium.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis