On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Opprobrium. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as obloquy or shame and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Opprobrium in a sentence
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.
Using Opprobrium
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: obloquy, shame, disgrace, ignominy.
- In the example corpus, opprobrium often appears in combinations such as: the opprobrium, and opprobrium, opprobrium of.
Context around Opprobrium
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Opprobrium
- In this selection, "opprobrium" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, public, social and drawn stand out and add context to how "opprobrium" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include anti china opprobrium is not and earned the opprobrium of the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "opprobrium" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with opprobrium
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Indeed, Hezbollah’s overt ties to Iran have drawn opprobrium from Lebanon’s other religious sects. (16 words)
Mick Jagger risks opprobrium with his take on the England 1998 football shirt for the Rolling Stones' £60 Universal FC top. (21 words)
The student, Khymani James, on Friday that he was “wrong” to make the statements, while blaming “far right agitators” for the opprobrium. (22 words)
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. (44 words)
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. (40 words)
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. (39 words)
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? (30 words)
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.
Common combinations with opprobrium
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the opprobrium 4×
- and opprobrium 3×
- opprobrium of 3×
- of opprobrium 2×
- opprobrium and 2×
- opprobrium with 2×
- public opprobrium 2×