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opprobrium

[uh-proh-bree-uhm] / əˈproʊ bri əm /


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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

This has been met with nervousness and opprobrium among Greenlanders - both on the world's largest island and elsewhere.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 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

And the old political playbook — confession, contrition, capitulation — is obviously no longer operative, as candidates find it not only possible but even advantageous to brazen their way through storms of uproar and opprobrium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2025

Opprobrious, o-prō′bri-us, adj. expressive of opprobrium or disgrace: reproachful: infamous: despised.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various


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