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

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

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

West Philadelphia and Germantown were no less terms of opprobrium in my mouth than Clapham and Brixton in Henley's.

From Our Philadelphia by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins