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opprobrium |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Opprobrium \Op*pro"bri*um\, n. [L., fr ob (see {Ob-}) + probrum reproach, disgrace.] Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. --De Quincey. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: opprobrium n 1: the state of disgrace resulting from public abuse [syn: {obloquy}] 2: a state of extreme dishonor: "a date which will live in infamy"- F.D.Roosevelt; "the name was a by-word of scorn and approbrium throughout the city" [syn: {infamy}] [ant: {fame}]
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