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Example sentences for: opprobrium
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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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