释义 |
opprobriumop‧pro‧bri‧um /əˈprəʊbriəm $ əˈproʊ-/ noun [uncountable] formal opprobriumOrigin: 1600-1700 Latin opprobrare ‘to blame’, from probrum ‘disgrace’ - Any country trading in these weapons would face international opprobrium.
- 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 |