Example sentences for: opprobrium

How can you use “opprobrium” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Courting opprobrium, the president raised the touchy issue of weapons of mass destruction and bravely declared that it would be bad if they were used.

  • Even without the burden of externally imposed social opprobrium, those living with a serious illness can face an enormous and painful inner struggle.

  • A term of opprobrium, the word came from the Southerners' perception that the newcomers represented the dregs of society, seeking nothing but easy political gain.

  • The much newer (1962) transitive verb access , as of a data base, bears no such oblique opprobrium in Oxford , even though it induces epidemic apoplexy among the self-appointed sentinels of linguistic correctness.

  • The role of the president is a symbolic one, and the symbol has to be a role model, not a symbol that engenders opprobrium."


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