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opprobrium

/uh-proh-bree-uhm/US // əˈproʊ bri əm //UK // (əˈprəʊbrɪəm) //

辱骂,辱骂声,谴责,丑闻

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy.
    • : a cause or object of such disgrace or reproach.

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Examples

  • But this is Clinton-era outrage: political motivations masquerading as moral opprobrium.

  • Singled out for opprobrium was the planned exhibit on Margaret Sanger, birth-control crusader and godmother of Planned Parenthood.

  • And so the serially unpopular Hollande was robbed of a rare break from public opprobrium.

  • In the real world, walking around with Google Glass is as likely to make you a target of opprobrium as it is a target of envy.

  • Heaping opprobrium on these parents exacerbates a problem we could instead resolve.

  • Remember this: if you are discovered, we shall all abandon you; we shall even cast, if necessary, opprobrium and infamy upon you.

  • The age of strikes had not yet arrived, and they preferred opprobrium with a little money to honour and an empty treasury.

  • Talents of the rarest order, or regarded as such, do not efface the opprobrium of a dissolute life.

  • But the common epithet of opprobrium is justly bestowed, and marks a right feeling.

  • It was a monstrous corruption in legislation, which not even the great name of Henry Clay could shield from subsequent opprobrium.