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op·pro·bri·um
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əˈproʊ
bri
əm
/
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uh
-
proh
-bree-
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m
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noun
1.
the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy.
2.
a cause or
object
of such disgrace or reproach.
Origin:
1650–60;
<
Latin:
reproach, equivalent to
op-
op-
+
probr
(
um
) infamy, disgrace +
-ium
-ium
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opprobrium
(əˈprəʊbrɪəm)
—
n
1.
the state of being abused or scornfully criticized
2.
reproach or censure
3.
a cause of disgrace or ignominy
[C17: from Latin
ob-
against +
probrum
a shameful act]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
opprobrium
1680s, from L. opprobrium "disgrace, infamy," from opprobare (see
opprobrious
).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
The
opprobrium
heaped on ratings firms is only partly deserved.
But that astonishment and
opprobrium
will not suffice to justify the
suppression of dual nationality.
He is a zoo creature, behind the bars of the people's
opprobrium
.
Even the names of
opprobrium
which the hostile parties applied to each other
were borrowed.
Ostensibly, voters become so satiated by the
opprobrium
candidates heap on one another that they quit the process entirely.
Others think the prime minister is pushing him forward to take the
opprobrium
.
One was to raise the level of
opprobrium
in society for that sort of activity.
Seen in this light, descriptions of pork barrel politics typically are overlaid with moral
opprobrium
.
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