How to Use opprobrium in a Sentence

opprobrium

noun

• They're going ahead with the plan despite public opprobrium.
• The opprobrium would be too loud.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025
• The de facto ban became a source of protest at home and opprobrium abroad.
  — Alexandra Zavis, latimes.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• Many heirs to the throne have incurred opprobrium on the ground of moral turpitude.
  — Zoë Heller, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• But there was no mass walkout, no opprobrium.
  — James McNicholas, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2026
• Such favoritism has also incurred the opprobrium of the right.
  — Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2024
• The plan flopped in the face of opprobrium from fans and national governments.
  — David Hellier, Bloomberg.com, 18 Mar. 2022
• Ziad Doueiri has come to expect this mixture of acclaim from abroad and opprobrium at home.
  — Jonathan Broder, Newsweek, 26 Jan. 2018
• If monogamy was anathema to him, so was enduring the opprobrium that the polyamorous suffer.
  — Benjamin Taylor, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2020
• High taxes and public opprobrium caused the alcopops bubble to burst.
  — 1843, 27 Sep. 2019
• The spate of warehouse visits hasn’t toned down any of the opprobrium from Amazon’s fiercest critics.
  — Jay Greene, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2019
• Many influencers and celebrities have faced the opprobrium of other social media users who are stuck at home.
  — New York Times, 27 Feb. 2021
• The post was deleted after other commenters were more pointed in their opprobrium.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2026
• The convenient thing about a failure this massive is there’s little reason to be stingy with the opprobrium.
  — Eric Betts, Slate Magazine, 10 Oct. 2017
• Rather, this groundswell of denialism must be countered by public opprobrium, and yes, shaming.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2013
• There's no opprobrium attached to trying out different partners and settling on the right one.
  — Arundhati Nath, CNN, 1 Sep. 2021
• And with that in mind, the harshest opprobrium should be for the Big Liars—not those who were taken in by their deceptions.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 8 Jan. 2022
• Whether Sessions survives this latest round of opprobrium is anyone's guess.
  — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 28 Feb. 2018
• There is a level of public opprobrium that will force Republicans to act in these cases.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 24 Sep. 2018
• Rwanda has also avoided opprobrium by using its small but well-trained military to aid the West.
  — Jason K. Stearns, Foreign Affairs, 26 July 2024
• But by overplaying his hand, Mr Iglesias will attract most of the opprobrium.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• But, despite the years of opprobrium, his resignation shocked the country.
  — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2022
• Since, for a change, the president didn’t do anything worthy of opprobrium, his critics seized instead on his wife’s attire.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 30 Aug. 2017
• Moreover, in the face of public opprobrium, Shkreli doubled down.
  — Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE.com, 14 Jan. 2022
• Guthrie faced both praise and opprobrium on social media, where conservative critics lobbed insults at her and many Democrats praised her.
  — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
• But Khalil’s killing elicited widespread opprobrium.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
• Who was merely a social or business connection, and who engaged in conduct that was criminal, or at the very least worthy of opprobrium?
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2026
• The latest object of his opprobrium would seem to be Steve Bannon, the chief White House strategist.
  — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2017
• The latest object of his opprobrium would seem to be Steve Bannon, the chief White House strategist.
  — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2017
• The respect the Dalai Lama receives around the world stands in stark contrast to the opprobrium heaped on him by the Chinese government.
  — Lobsang Sangay, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2023