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Such is the affection for Stuart Pearce in these parts, the opprobrium of the Nottingham Forest supporters on the final whistle was muted and delivered as much in sorrow as in anger, but their patience with the manager must be wearing thin.
However, does this justify what appears to be the inappropriate levels of opprobrium aimed at the GOT rape scene?
Rather the opprobrium should be heaped on those players down the years who have so abused the regulations, using them tactically, that the ICC felt it needed to be taken out of their hands, in much the same way as they have done with the provision of runners, another stipulation that was abused.
Peterson – giving the police interview before the story broke nationally, and public opprobrium poured in – simply doesn't realise he has done something that anyone could consider even bad parenting, let alone child abuse.
Perhaps he planned to do it during an afternoon walk down the Manly Corso but that risked Manly chucking a fit (and perhaps the carton of hot chips they'd be holding) and making Cherry-Evans the focus of public opprobrium.
The widespread opprobrium in response to Ramsay Snow's sexual assault of Sansa Stark – including feminist blog The Mary Sue deciding to cease covering the show altogether – suggests that the creators might need to consider how they handle such issues in the future.
It may seem cruel to single out one man in particular for opprobrium , and May, the blokeish, shaggy-haired Top Gear co-presenter, is possibly not the worst-dressed man in Britain.
Yet provoking such opprobrium doesn't seem to bother them, and nor will it if they succeed in disrupting the royal visit next month.
But when demonstrators manage that, they can ensure that all the opprobrium is focused on the state and, despite the risks to life and limb, recruit more supporters.This objective winning the moral battle, rather than the street fight has become more crucial in the internet and satellite-TV age.
Many on the left want the term to apply to anyone who spends a lot of time talking about racial IQ comparisons, while retaining the full opprobrium of "racist" in the Nazi sense.
Cameroon has passed no anti-gay legislation in recent years, and has thus largely escaped the opprobrium of Western governments and campaigners.
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The primary grammatical function of "opprobrium" is as a noun . It refers to the disgrace incurred by conduct deemed outrageously shameful. Ludwig examples show its use in describing the public reaction to actions, as in "public opprobrium". According to Ludwig AI, the word is correct and usable in English.
Expression frequency: Very common
