Their families also needed to be shielded from public opprobrium. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The name was a by-word of scorn and opprobrium throughout the city. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Rather than rain opprobrium on the "inexperienced bicyclists" perhaps it can be stated that there were just too many cyclists. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday Parkways: not really a pedestrian thing (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference
That if worse things mean the opprobrium is excessive, then things less bad — many of which involve talk – mean the opprobrium is too low. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Indictment for Chat Room Posts Urging Particular People to Commit Suicide] Reference
Honestly, the force of society’s opprobrium is more effective than any law in fighting prejudice. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities] Reference
DG: Honestly, the force of society’s opprobrium is more effective than any law in fighting prejudice. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities] Reference
The constructive kind of opprobrium, we would hope. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
Calvin's guilt especially, but the common 'opprobrium' of all. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
It's just too easy to heap opprobrium on Wall Street. From Wordnik.com. [Who’s to Blame: Washington or Wall Street?] Reference
This is the very bane and opprobrium of our institutions. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
So far, bankers have been getting most of the opprobrium. From Wordnik.com. [Bankers vs. Economists] Reference
Blair is beset by public opprobrium and his own apparent guilt. From Wordnik.com. [From political wizard to a byword for excess. The journey's over for Tony] Reference
Notwithstanding the opprobrium attaching to the name, Arnold, in. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
I can just imagine the opprobrium that would now be heaped on us. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Clegg: We've released the inner Liberal in many Tories] Reference
This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
"" But you can express all the social opprobrium you need without criminalization. ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Cash Machine] Reference
No greater indignity can be offered an individual, than to throw opprobrium on his parents. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Mr. Fenton did not wish the little New England village to share in the opprobrium of "Main Street.". From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference
Zimbabwe is suffering from international opprobrium, fuel and food shortages and 100 percent inflation. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa Is Not Zimbabwe] Reference
Speaking to Sutherland in 2006, Kermode admitted that the move had "attracted quite a lot of opprobrium". From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated critic Frank Kermode dies aged 90] Reference
As a result, pain and opprobrium was heaped upon him, most notably by Sarah Palin, who had endorsed O'Donnell. From Wordnik.com. [How Christine O'Donnell Beat The GOP Establishment (VIDEO)] Reference
The contrary has been often true, though their fall, and the opprobrium cast upon them have been none the less sure. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
I am, therefore, a member of the "economic elite," a recipient of all the opprobrium my status as a parasite deserves. From Wordnik.com. [Sudden I'm The Bad Guy] Reference
Naturally, I feel it me bounden duty to refute such scurrilous and untrue affronts, and thus save meself from opprobrium. From Wordnik.com. [Despoilers of the Golden Empire] Reference
A tough childhood, unconventional beauty, critical opprobrium -- none of these has stayed the diva from her rise to glory. From Wordnik.com. [On Mtv, A Star Is Slain] Reference
Cardinal Tournon and Diana of Poitiers, he tells us, shared in the opprobrium of being the instigators of these atrocities. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
The decision was so controversial that President Obama singled it out for opprobrium during his State of the Union address. From Wordnik.com. [Supreme Court Review: Campaign Cash, Controversy] Reference
On the other hand, opponents of the Netanyahu government cite global opprobrium as an argument for a different political course. From Wordnik.com. [Don’t Boycott Israel] Reference
Para 30. "humiliation and opprobrium of the questionable privileges of an uncertain paternity." - 'questioable' in original ibid. From Wordnik.com. [The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional] Reference
Bundy bore the opprobrium with dignity, never answering the criticisms directly and perhaps privately agreeing with some of them. From Wordnik.com. [What Vietnam Teaches Us] Reference
Though only persons of that description hailing from Pike County were those who at first had to bear the opprobrium generally implied by. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
Those who were the promoters of the Treaty must have required some consolation for the general opprobrium into which the measure brought the Commissioners. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
This declaration was perhaps necessary, to rescue the memory of Lord George from the opprobrium of cruelty; since it has been asserted, that at the battle of. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Wherever she has gone forth she has acquitted herself creditably, and successfully lived down all attempts to ridicule and cast opprobrium upon her adventure. From Wordnik.com. [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference
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