opprobrium

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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

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

Honor codes, which apply not just to whole societies but to specific groups within them, are enforced externally with social opprobrium, and internally by shame.

From Slate • Aug. 7, 2025

But little of that opprobrium seemed evident at IDEX, as the biennial arms fair in the UAE is known.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025

The opprobrium and possibly material penalty, he would incur by backing out constitute the more formidable alternative of the two.

From The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan by Mitford, Bertram