How to Use opprobrium in a Sentence

opprobrium

noun

• They're going ahead with the plan despite public opprobrium.
• The tragedy is that Trump has made the U.S., rather than China, the focus of the world’s opprobrium.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Many heirs to the throne have incurred opprobrium on the ground of moral turpitude.
  — Zoë Heller, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• The de facto ban became a source of protest at home and opprobrium abroad.
  — Alexandra Zavis, latimes.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• And with that in mind, the harshest opprobrium should be for the Big Liars—not those who were taken in by their deceptions.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 8 Jan. 2022
• The respect the Dalai Lama receives around the world stands in stark contrast to the opprobrium heaped on him by the Chinese government.
  — Lobsang Sangay, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2023
• Even Trump is likely to figure this one out and avoid the opprobrium that would follow.
  — Jeffrey Sachs, CNN, 31 May 2017
• The latest object of his opprobrium would seem to be Steve Bannon, the chief White House strategist.
  — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2017
• The spate of warehouse visits hasn’t toned down any of the opprobrium from Amazon’s fiercest critics.
  — Jay Greene, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2019
• The plan flopped in the face of opprobrium from fans and national governments.
  — David Hellier, Bloomberg.com, 18 Mar. 2022
• If monogamy was anathema to him, so was enduring the opprobrium that the polyamorous suffer.
  — Benjamin Taylor, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2020
• Ziad Doueiri has come to expect this mixture of acclaim from abroad and opprobrium at home.
  — Jonathan Broder, Newsweek, 26 Jan. 2018
• The convenient thing about a failure this massive is there’s little reason to be stingy with the opprobrium.
  — Eric Betts, Slate Magazine, 10 Oct. 2017
• But by overplaying his hand, Mr Iglesias will attract most of the opprobrium.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• Many influencers and celebrities have faced the opprobrium of other social media users who are stuck at home.
  — New York Times, 27 Feb. 2021
• High taxes and public opprobrium caused the alcopops bubble to burst.
  — 1843, 27 Sep. 2019
• Over the past few months, TikTok—the social media platform that Gen Z has taken to in droves and which their aunts don’t quite understand—has earned the opprobrium of lawmakers near and far.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 7 Jan. 2023
• The wide acclaim, and wide opprobrium, for these justices is a sign of something that has gone wrong in our political culture, in which the Supreme Court looms entirely too large.
  — The Editors, National Review, 20 Sep. 2020
• Upon her return to the states, Barb is denounced as a traitor and suspected spy — opprobrium that worsens her terror and tension.
  — F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 12 June 2018
• Since, for a change, the president didn’t do anything worthy of opprobrium, his critics seized instead on his wife’s attire.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 30 Aug. 2017
• There is a level of public opprobrium that will force Republicans to act in these cases.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 24 Sep. 2018
• If the Lakers blow it from here, up 3-1 and after seizing the first 2-0 finals lead of James’s career, count on the opprobrium directed at James to be louder and harsher than ever.
  — Marc Stein, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
• Of all the Main Characters on the internet, there is perhaps no creature that merits more opprobrium, more rank disgust, than the Disney Adult.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2022
• Rwanda has also avoided opprobrium by using its small but well-trained military to aid the West.
  — Jason K. Stearns, Foreign Affairs, 26 July 2024
• There's no opprobrium attached to trying out different partners and settling on the right one.
  — Arundhati Nath, CNN, 1 Sep. 2021
• But, despite the years of opprobrium, his resignation shocked the country.
  — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2022
• But Sorkin reserves his harshest opprobrium for the transgressors on his own team, like jolly old Philip Johnson.
  — Hugo Lindgren, Curbed, 22 Mar. 2021
• In the end, the opprobrium directed at agents for their desire to be paid for their work and try to earn a decent living rises at least in part from the fact that brokerage was, for many years, a woman’s business.
  — Frederick Peters, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• Blair and Blairism became terms of opprobrium in much of the British Labour Party, which subsequently lurched to the left and now faces electoral annihilation.
  — Dominic Tierney, The Atlantic, 9 May 2017
• The opprobrium directed at boxers Khelif and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan was not as easily countered.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024