They must feel the opprobrium and repugnance of civilized people everywhere.
At the same time, there's the sense that we are writing on the same subject, albeit very differently, and I felt the opprobrium heaped on Cusk rubbed off on me a little: if what she did is wrong – a betrayal – is the same true of me?
As the reforms start to bite it is the companies making profits out of PIP assessments that may, like Atos, feel the lash of public opprobrium.
A considerable part of the Afrikaner community has come to feel uncomfortable with the status quo of moral opprobrium and international isolation.
Whatever else we think of Huhne and his catalogue of deceit, and however badly he has behaved towards his family, we can still feel empathy for a man who had such personal opprobrium heaped on him through this impersonal channel, and then had it placed before the voyeuristic gaze of a censorious public.
Finally, it's very hard to feel sorry for the authors when they complain about the opprobrium and "excommunication" they have suffered at the hands of the left.
Every British newspaper gleefully reprinted lists of the opprobrium it received for its trouble ("How will you feel when pensioners die from choosing to eat instead of heat?" being a typical response).
Even in the West, he added, some Muslims apparently felt they would incur opprobrium if they broke ranks with their co-religionists; and some seemed to fear that relaxing the ban on apostasy would open the flood-gates to all modern notions of personal and intellectual freedom.
United's assistant manager, Ryan Giggs, strode off ahead of Van Gaal at the end, once again, and though no opprobrium was voiced as the head coach made his way past the massed travelling supporters, it did feel like the occasion we will ultimately come to describe as the beginning of the end.
One story starts: "Today I threw 237 celebrity-obsessed magazines in the recycling and I feel better for it". One thing that surprised me – given the increasing use of the word "fat" to denote general opprobrium among schoolchildren – is that the Body Gossip stories challenge the idea that body image problems are all about a skinny ideal.
