The candidate became the target of growing opprobrium as his past misdeeds came to light.
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Opprobrium
//əˈpɹəʊ.bɹɪ.əm//
Synonyms for "opprobrium" (50 found)
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31 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- безчестие noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
- позор noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
Catalan
1 entries- oprobi noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
Czech
1 entries- potupa noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
Dutch
1 entries- misprijzen noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
French
1 entries- opprobre noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
Georgian
1 entries- სირცხვილი noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
German
1 entries- Opprobration noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
Hungarian
1 entries- szégyen noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
Irish
1 entries- masla noun (scornful contempt or reproach; an instance of this)
Italian
1 entries- obbrobrio noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
Latin
2 entries- obprōbrium noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
- opprobrium noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- رذالت noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
Polish
4 entries- hańba noun (cause, object, or situation of disgrace or shame)
- hańba noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
- hańba noun (behaviour which is disgraceful or shameful)
- niesława noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
Portuguese
1 entries- opróbrio noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
Romanian
1 entries- oprobriu noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
Russian
2 entries- бесче́стье noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
- позо́р noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- sramòta noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
- срамо̀та noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
Spanish
2 entries- oprobio noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
- oprobrio noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
Turkish
1 entries- utanç noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
Ukrainian
2 entries- безче́стя noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
- ганьба́ noun (disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour — see also ignominy)
Sample sentences
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As there are certain malignant diseases which have been denominated the opprobria of medicine, so there are particular maladies of our social condition, which may be considered the opprobria of legislation. Amongst the most inveterate of these are the poor laws.
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It was not that he was in danger of legal punishment or of beggary: he was in danger only of seeing disclosed to the judgment of his neighbours and the mournful perception of his wife certain facts of his past life which would render him an object of scorn and an opprobrium of the religion with which he had diligently associated himself.
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Twelve years have now elapsed since the first assassinations which proved the existence of a criminal organization in our midst. From that day these outrages have never ceased, until now they have reached a pitch which makes us the opprobrium of the civilized world.
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