opprobrium
severe criticism
TRANSLATION
opprobrium = heftige Vorwürfe --- GOOGLE INDEX opprobrium: approximately 400,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
British Petroleum is unable to stop the flow of OPPROBRIUM directed toward it, as we can see from several polls conducted late last month...
(Adweek)
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We will make our contribution to the world's peace, which no nation values more highly, and avoid the OPPROBRIUM which must fall upon the nation that ruthlessly breaks it.
- Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States
(Adweek)
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We will make our contribution to the world's peace, which no nation values more highly, and avoid the OPPROBRIUM which must fall upon the nation that ruthlessly breaks it.
- Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States
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opprobrium
noun
- severe criticism and blame
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Opprobrium stems from the Late Latin opprobriosus and the Latin opprobare, meaning "to reproach, taunt." It derives from "ob" (against) and "probum" (reproach, disgrace). Opprobrium thus means criticism that is meant to shame.
William Cobbett was a 19th-century British publisher and the first to print a regular record of British Parliamentary proceedings. Called the Weekly Register, it was full of opprobrium targeted at British lawmakers who were unhappy about his "invective."
Many of his opponents called the Weekly Register "two-penny trash," which prompted Cobbett to then write a monthly publication titled "Two-Penny Trash." The sub-title was "Politics for the Poor." Cobbett wrote in the first edition, "The object of this publication is, to explain to the people of this Kingdom what it is that, despite of all the industry and frugality that they can practise, keeps them poor."
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SYNONYMS
black eye, blemish, discredit, humiliation, ill repute, infamy, shame
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"Companies which pollute the environment can expect a lot of opprobrium."
noun
- severe criticism and blame
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Opprobrium stems from the Late Latin opprobriosus and the Latin opprobare, meaning "to reproach, taunt." It derives from "ob" (against) and "probum" (reproach, disgrace). Opprobrium thus means criticism that is meant to shame.
William Cobbett was a 19th-century British publisher and the first to print a regular record of British Parliamentary proceedings. Called the Weekly Register, it was full of opprobrium targeted at British lawmakers who were unhappy about his "invective."
Many of his opponents called the Weekly Register "two-penny trash," which prompted Cobbett to then write a monthly publication titled "Two-Penny Trash." The sub-title was "Politics for the Poor." Cobbett wrote in the first edition, "The object of this publication is, to explain to the people of this Kingdom what it is that, despite of all the industry and frugality that they can practise, keeps them poor."
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SYNONYMS
black eye, blemish, discredit, humiliation, ill repute, infamy, shame
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Companies which pollute the environment can expect a lot of opprobrium."
