How To Use Opprobrium In A Sentence
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Though temperance advocates acknowledged that either male or female drinking destroyed domestic happiness, they often reserved their harshest opprobrium for women's drunkenness.
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They may want to avoid some of the social opprobrium that they might still face as homosexuals.
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The opprobrium that once attached to informers, snitches, snouts, shoppers and narks in all walks of life no longer exists.
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The government did not deserve the opprobrium heaped on it by the national press.
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Free of bias, it may not subject us to personal embarrassment or opprobrium in public - as may a human agent of the state.
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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
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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.
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He does not deserve the opprobrium that has been heaped on him from great heights.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our Constitution is "socialistic" - to use the term of opprobrium ignorantly spewed about our government by tea partiers.
Naplesnews.com Stories
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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?
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The opprobrium that once attached to informers, snitches, snouts, shoppers and narks in all walks of life no longer exists.
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The effect of the rehash is to make those who believed in – or claimed to believe in – the forgeries look perhaps marginally less stupid and to shift some of the opprobrium from the Italian authorities to Niger Embassy staff.
Firedoglake » Judge Rules in Libby Case and Other Matters
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As for why door blockers, pole huggers and other egregious violators of subway etiquette do not experience the same opprobrium, perhaps another study is in order.
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International opprobrium has been heaped on the country following its attack on its neighbours.
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February 11th, 2010 at 7: 32 pm although my intuitive assumption would be that if an activity was subject to significant state action & social opprobrium its frequency in occurrence would drop.
Matthew Yglesias » The Collapse of Latvia
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Further deaths today will bring renewed opprobrium.
Times, Sunday Times
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But even if true, it is no necessary cause for opprobrium.
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Whether in a newspaper essay or the mouth of Betsy King, “antifederalist” was a term of opprobrium.
Ratification
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On the other hand, the public opprobrium over the Libor affair is so strong that banks may decide to settle out of court.
Times, Sunday Times
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After all, securing broad public approval or at least avoiding public opprobrium is crucial for their long term financial survival.
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Ransome-Kuti's sense of social responsibility overrode his apprehension of the social stigma and opprobrium that might affect his extended family.
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His ideas themselves went against the dirigiste orthodoxies of his age and discipline, and earned him much disdain and opprobrium.
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I have been heaped with some opprobrium by opponents of the project.
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If a politician has been subject to public opprobrium they are legitimate targets for a media hate campaign.
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Terzani eventually earned the Chinese government's opprobrium and was expelled in 1984 for counter-revolutionary activities.
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I have been heaped with some opprobrium by opponents of the project, and the issue has created deep divisions within the town.
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But we have the right, or even the duty, to greet many ideas (bigotries, superstitions) with opprobrium and ridicule.
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The crime of genocide is singled out for special condemnation and opprobrium.
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The government did not deserve the opprobrium heaped on it by the national press.
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‘I'm indifferent to opprobrium and disfavor,’ he says cheerfully.
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He does not deserve the opprobrium that has been heaped on him from great heights.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not coincidentally, perhaps, the British have more popular terms of opprobrium for their European neighbors than does any other people.
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Any hint of public opprobrium at ‘shacking up’ has vanished.
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Apart from all that social opprobrium, which existed particularly in those days, going through divorce involves a lot of reconstruction of identity and self-examination.
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The bombing has attracted international opprobrium.
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For some they are a source of middle-class opprobrium, while for others they are an art form, reflecting social, political and cultural change.
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And how much further does Arsene Wenger need to go to merit the opprobrium and Chelsea?
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Given that secrecy is the norm, however, the public does not attach great opprobrium to those who engage in the practice.
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Social opprobrium also once greeted adopted children, stepchildren, and even the only child, not to mention the children of interracial couples.
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But if you want to wield the threat of public opprobrium, and you want it to have any force, then there needs to be a way out.
Times, Sunday Times
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This has attracted little opprobrium and no calls for the obliteration of Sri Lanka or talk of its brutalisation.
Where are the protests?
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Few of the participants appeared to have coped with their relationship disappointments and social opprobrium without considerable mental effort.
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If a politician has been subject to public opprobrium they are legitimate targets for a media hate campaign.
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The opprobrium that once attached to informers, snitches, snouts, shoppers and narks in all walks of life no longer exists.
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the name was a by-word of scorn and opprobrium throughout the city
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Liberalism does not mean withholding criticism, judgement, or moral opprobrium.
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He fully deserved the opprobrium heaped on him.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fact that some of these constraints will manifest themselves as moral opprobrium and self-regulation makes it all the more worrying.
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They would not feel shame at accusations of corruption and at the opprobrium of their colleagues.
Times, Sunday Times
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For now, officials trying to protect the public risk punishment and opprobrium, while terrorists trying to invade and destroy the country enjoy politically motivated protection.
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Indeed, stepping over the party line on this subject can result in ostracism, opprobrium and banishment to career Siberias.
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Few white women were willing to risk the social opprobrium that open racial alliances might attract.
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Only my friends appreciate how utterly uncharacteristic this is, but I've long ceased worrying about public opprobrium.
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They are deeply uneasy with social instruments like shame or opprobrium, which smack of big-nosed authoritarianism in a new guise.
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The couple seem relaxed about the possibility of public opprobrium.
Times, Sunday Times
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Empty posturing, artistic commodification and media faddism must all face the force of his opprobrium, not to mention talent corrupted.
The Times Literary Supplement
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By the time of his death in 2001, of course, he had become a respected conventional artist, but in those days he had attracted much opprobrium by his contempt for the art world and his refusal to conform in any way to its conventions.
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Despite his outsider status and the opprobrium it generates, he won't give in.
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Opprobrium from the terraces and beyond was unrelenting.
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You get nothing back but opprobrium, abuse, and ostracism.
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The couple seem relaxed about the possibility of public opprobrium.
Times, Sunday Times
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International opprobrium has been heaped on the country following its attack on its neighbours.
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Papist," but as far as I can tell, Pise is wrong: "Romanist" appears to be a familiar term of opprobrium in English polemic by the late seventeenth century.
Religion
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In other words, the name "governmentalism," while intended as a word of opprobrium for socialism, really indicates the amazing misconception which the critics have of the nation itself, and of the relation of the nation's life to its self-direction.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
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If all of us punish the new usage with ridicule and opprobrium, maybe we can reverse this loss to language.
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His follow-up picture Assassin premiered at Cannes in 1997 to particularly dismissive critical opprobrium and never earned a release in the UK.
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The government did not deserve the opprobrium heaped on it by the national press.
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Is this not a big signal to HRC funders: Penn sees HRC's race as sufficiently doomed that it makes sense to him now, net/net, to risk this near-term opprobrium in order to assure future Burson Marsteller business?
Report: Mark Penn Met With Colombian Ambassador To Talk Trade
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The couple seem relaxed about the possibility of public opprobrium.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rather than rain opprobrium on the "inexperienced bicyclists" perhaps it can be stated that there were just too many cyclists.
Sunday Parkways: not really a pedestrian thing (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Freedom Party officials say he doesn't want the increased international opprobrium that would have fallen on him and Austria if he had won a second election outright.
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That if worse things mean the opprobrium is excessive, then things less bad — many of which involve talk – mean the opprobrium is too low.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Indictment for Chat Room Posts Urging Particular People to Commit Suicide
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And Walter Kirn, weighing in on Wallace's final collection, Oblivion, heaped opprobrium on Wallace's "unedited" feed:
David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model
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Fearing social opprobrium if it was known that she had two illegitimate children - she had been passing as Mrs Imlay in public - Mary persuaded Godwin to marry her.
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Breaching the non-proliferation treaty brings sanctions but not lasting opprobrium.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cheryl doesn't have to worry about social opprobrium - she will be dead by lunchtime.
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Apparently fearful of public opprobrium, companies have been spurred to reduce toxic emissions on their own.
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Laying over on his long journey south, Grayson found that the failure to decide the location of the future capital, in whatever location, Pennsylvania or the Potomac, “is much reprobated in this City”; much of that opprobrium, naturally, fell on Morris.
Robert Morris
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You should be proud of this tradition and instead of pouring opprobrium upon those who wish to highlight the shortfall in the usually high standards of those constabularies, you should be welcoming this scrutiny for a sign of what it is, a reaction to the unusualness of the footage, a reaction of shock at the infrequency that violence towards the public is actually used.
Diversity In Action (or ‘inaction’ if you prefer) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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And he will find himself targeted for opprobrium by others who presently portray him as a politician of Churchillian stature.
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It was the opprobrium of the Republican party in the Presidential campaign of 1860, that the Southern States were not, in any but a limited degree, represented in its ranks; and so it was called a sectional party.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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And having more than you can conceivably use of such objects is not met with opprobrium but with genial acceptance.
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He feels that managers get too much praise and kudos when things go well, too much opprobrium when they don't.
Times, Sunday Times
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The two professors who started all this complained in their op-ed that "George Mason University received over $23 million from Koch brothers foundations to hire seven libertarian professors," as though "libertarian" were a term of opprobrium.
Professors to Koch Brothers: Take Your Green Back
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Of course politicians choose to be public figures and they know it opens them up to the likelihood of public criticism and general opprobrium.
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His collecting and building did not earn him public opprobrium, as did George IV's, nor were his cultural activities seen as politically suspect, like Charles I's.
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Unless we simply presume a priori that Israelis are evil, I really do not see why the Israelis would want to provoke an attack so that they could kill a handful of passengers and suffer further opprobrium from the rest of the world.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenwald and Gaza
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International opprobrium has been heaped on the country following its attack on its neighbours.
