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Example sentences for: opprobrium

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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."