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What does opprobrium mean?

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Noun
  1. Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy.
  2. Scornful reproach or contempt.
  3. A cause of shame or disgrace.
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Terzani eventually earned the Chinese government's opprobrium and was expelled in 1984 for counter-revolutionary activities.
Despite his outsider status and the opprobrium it generates, he won't give in.
That earned him opprobrium in the council chamber but on the streets cemented his reputation as a man of action.
Indeed, stepping over the party line on this subject can result in ostracism, opprobrium and banishment to career Siberias.
Isabelle is Bertolucci's confused coquette, the question mark drowning in repressed opprobrium.
I have been heaped with some opprobrium by opponents of the project, and the issue has created deep divisions within the town.

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