opprobrium

How To Use opprobrium In A Sentence

• Though temperance advocates acknowledged that either male or female drinking destroyed domestic happiness, they often reserved their harshest opprobrium for women's drunkenness.
• They may want to avoid some of the social opprobrium that they might still face as homosexuals.
• The opprobrium that once attached to informers, snitches, snouts, shoppers and narks in all walks of life no longer exists.
• The government did not deserve the opprobrium heaped on it by the national press.
• Free of bias, it may not subject us to personal embarrassment or opprobrium in public - as may a human agent of the state.
• Brand experts warned that celebrities who were exposed as members of tax avoidance schemes faced losing lucrative sponsorship deals and endorsements because of public opprobrium. Times, Sunday Times
• The most striking element of their behaviour has been a capacity to follow every bad decision with a worse one, combining wrong-headedness with moral weakness to create layer upon layer of confusion, embarrassment and opprobrium.
• He does not deserve the opprobrium that has been heaped on him from great heights. Times, Sunday Times
• Our Constitution is "socialistic" - to use the term of opprobrium ignorantly spewed about our government by tea partiers. Naplesnews.com Stories
• Of course, most transgenerational obligations run the other way -- from parents to children -- and of these the most obvious candidate for opprobrium is our wasteful attitude toward the planet's natural resources and ecology. What will future generations condemn us for?