Example sentences for: opprobrium

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

  • 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.

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

  • So what's Krauthammer's view of the small, heavily militarized Yugoslav regime that is standing up to a global blockade and the opprobrium of the entire world?

  • Pundit Margaret Carlson of Time pronounced it "an antidote to the zeitgeist of the '80s, when middle-aged tycoons and their acolytes could suddenly drop an inconvenient first wife without social opprobrium," and predicted the film would spark the kind of debate provoked by Thelma & Louise . The Los Angeles Times envisioned a reversal of Hollywood's bias toward male actors: "Could it be that being middle-aged and female has become a Hollywood box-office asset?"


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