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Opprobrium

Opprobrium meaning

A cause, object, or situation of disgrace or shame. | Disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour; ignominy. | Scornful contempt or reproach; (countable) an instance of this.

Example sentences (17)

Certainly Curran is due his fair share of opprobrium and the City Attorney in 2021 approved a settlement with the owners involving a $1.2 million penalty and some $2.3 million in shirked affordable housing fees.

The aides said: “We note with grave concern, the current orchestrated actions of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr. Peter Obi, in attempting to subject our democratic institutions to ridicule and opprobrium.

The primary reason for the success of this scam is a widespread unemployment problem which makes people undertake any job that pays a decent sum, and keep paying more than what they earn to retain it, a kind of tax to escape social opprobrium.

Indeed, Hezbollah’s overt ties to Iran have drawn opprobrium from Lebanon’s other religious sects.

Is Cheryl Hines, pictured, Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm spouse, facing the opprobrium of Hollywood after her real-life husband Robert F Kennedy Jr joined forces with Donald Trump?

Mick Jagger risks opprobrium with his take on the England 1998 football shirt for the Rolling Stones' £60 Universal FC top.

On their release they too had to endure the stigma and opprobrium of a society that could see no value in their stand, and that was not inclined to be empathetic to their plight.

The student, Khymani James, on Friday that he was “wrong” to make the statements, while blaming “far right agitators” for the opprobrium.

Whenever Integrity Counts mentions the State Farm security videotape, it is never ambiguous about the individual upon whom it places responsibility and opprobrium for the misleading excerpts and their use: Giuliani.

Even the China’s strict film censorship apparatus hasn’t evaded the nationalists’ opprobrium, with many chiding authorities for failing to censor the film more aggressively.

It is a shame and earns Zimbabwe public opprobrium as a country that has failed to issue out registration plates for whatever reasons they would like to proffer; it’s unforgivable.

Leader of the Opposition Ramesh Chennithala who had moved the High Court against the controversial order, said the arrogance of the government that it could arm-twist State employees into forsaking their pay had earned the opprobrium of the court.

Sensing mounting international opprobrium and fearing economic decoupling with major Western powers, the Chinese government appears to believe that it must act, and fast, to once again turn Hong Kong into its window onto the rest of the world.

The catalyst of this round of anti-China opprobrium is not trade, as it has been the past few years, but Huawei’s 5G networks.

For years Woolworths has sought to distance itself from its growing poker machine empire, a business venture that each year delivers the Fresh Food People a fire-hose of high-margin revenue and increased public opprobrium.

In addition, robber barons began to earn their newly coined term of opprobrium by robbing ships of their cargoes, stealing entire ships and even kidnapping.

It was to overcome this prejudice that such high wages had been offered to women that they might be induced to become millgirls, in spite of the opprobrium that still clung to this degrading occupation.