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单词 opprobrium
释义
opprobriumop‧pro‧bri‧um /əˈprəʊbriəm $ əˈproʊ-/ noun [uncountable] formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINopprobrium
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin opprobrare ‘to blame’, from probrum ‘disgrace’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Any country trading in these weapons would face international opprobrium.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • The Hooper who existed in Brideshead Revisited, though, bore all the weight of Waugh's opprobrium.
  • The individual whose own income is going up has no real reason to incur the opprobrium of this discussion.
  • The Third Republic's reputation, he argues, does not deserve the opprobrium heaped upon it by Gaullists and Petainists alike.
  • Yet it is not he but the virtuous Harry Percy who dies and poor old Falstaff who has to shoulder the opprobrium.
strong criticism or disapproval, especially expressed publicly
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