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1 Opprobrium -- rank: 1000

Opprobrium definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary OPPRO'BRIUM, n. [L. ob ... 1: state of disgrace resulting from public abuse [syn: obloquy, opprobrium] 2: a state of extreme dishonor; "a date which will ... Roosevelt; "the name was a by-word of scorn and opprobrium throughout the city" [syn: infamy, opprobrium] [ant: celebrity, fame, renown] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: Latin ... opprobrum (as OB-, probrum disgraceful act) Webster's 1913 Dictionary Opprobrium Op*pro"bri*um, n. [L., fr. ob (see Ob ... and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. --De Quincey. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary Opprobrium is open ...

2 Opprobrious -- rank: 644

Opprobrious definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary OPPRO'BRIOUS, a. [See Opprobrium.] 1. Reproachful and contemptuous; scurrilous; as opprobrious language; opprobrious words ... Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 14th century 1. expressive of opprobrium ; scurrilous < opprobrious language > 2. deserving of opprobrium ; infamous • opprobriously adverb • opprobriousness noun Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. (of ... abusive. Derivatives: opprobriously adv. Etymology: ME f. LL opprobriosus (as OPPROBRIUM) Webster's 1913 Dictionary Opprobrious Op*pro"bri*ous, a. [L. opprobriosus, fr. opprobrium. See Opprobrium.] 1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, ...

3 infamy -- rank: 498

... Roosevelt; "the name was a by-word of scorn and opprobrium throughout the city" [syn: infamy, opprobrium] [ant: celebrity, fame, renown] 2: evil fame or public reputation ... Synonyms n. 1. Dishonor, disgrace, discredit, disrepute, shame, ignominy, obloquy, opprobrium, odium, scandal, abasement. 2. Disgracefulness, dishonorableness, shamefulness, odiousness, detestableness, scandalousness ... loathsomeness, loss of honor, monstrosity, notoriety, notoriousness, obliquity, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, outrage, peccancy, pity, profanation, reprobacy, revulsion, sacrilege, scandal, shame, shamefulness ...

4 Ignominy -- rank: 429

... Hobbes. 2. An act deserving disgrace; an infamous act. Syn: Opprobrium; reproach; dishonor. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary Ignominy is shame or ... Synonyms n. Dishonor, disgrace, discredit, disrepute, shame, infamy, obloquy, contempt, opprobrium, odium, scandal, abasement. Moby Thesaurus abomination, atrocity, chagrin, contempt, degradation ... ignominiousness, infamousness, infamy, ingloriousness, loss of honor, mortification, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, pity, profanation, sacrilege, scandal, scorn, shame, terrible thing, violation

5 Odium -- rank: 429

... or contempt ; detestation 3. disrepute or infamy attached to something ; opprobrium Oxford Reference Dictionary n. a general or widespread dislike or ... dislike, enmity, abhorrence, detestation, antipathy. 2. Odiousness, repulsiveness. 3. Obloquy, opprobrium, reproach. Moby Thesaurus Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, abomination, anti-Semitism, antipathy ... loss of honor, malevolence, malice, malignity, misandry, misanthropy, misogyny, obloquy, opprobrium, race hatred, racism, repugnance, shame, spite, spitefulness, stain, vials of ...

6 Opprobriousness -- rank: 429

... Dictionary Opprobrious Op*pro"bri*ous, a. [L. opprobriosus, fr. opprobrium. See Opprobrium.] 1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves ...

7 Invective -- rank: 429

... speech or expression; something uttered or written, intended to cast opprobrium, censure or reproach on another; a harsh or reproachful accusation ... censure or reproach; something uttered or written, intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach on another; a harsh or reproachful accusation ... innuendo, inveighing, irony, jawing, jeremiad, judgmental, objurgatory, obloquy, onslaught, opprobrious, opprobrium, oration, pep talk, peroration, philippic, pitch, prepared speech, prepared text ...

8 Abuse -- rank: 429

... distrained, by the distrainer. Syn: Invective; contumely; reproach; scurrility; insult; opprobrium. Usage: Abuse, Invective. Abuse is generally prompted by anger, and ... railing, reviling, vilification, defamation, aspersion, disparagement, rating, upbraiding, contumely, obloquy, opprobrium, insult, scurrility, ribaldry, foul invective, rude reproach, billingsgate. Moby Thesaurus ... misusage, misuse, molest, molestation, mud, objurgate, objurgation, obloquy, onslaught, oppress, opprobrium, outrage, peculate, peculation, persecute, perversion, pervert, philippic, pilfer, pilfering, play ...

9 Opprobriously -- rank: 429

... Dictionary Opprobrious Op*pro"bri*ous, a. [L. opprobriosus, fr. opprobrium. See Opprobrium.] 1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves ...

10 Disgrace -- rank: 429

... interchange continually of favors and disgraces. --Bacon. Syn: Disfavor; disesteem; opprobrium; reproach; discredit; disparagement; dishonor; shame; infamy; ignominy; humiliation. Webster's ... 2. Dishonor, discredit, disrepute, disesteem, shame, reproach, disparagement, ignominy, infamy, opprobrium, obloquy, odium, scandal, blot on one's escutcheon. II. v ... make little of, minimize, minimizing, mortification, mortify, obliquity, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, pity, profanation, put down, put out, put to shame, put ...

11 Reproach -- rank: 429

... L. prox, in proximus.] 1. To censure in terms of opprobrium or contempt. Mezentius with his ardor warm'd his fainting ... more a reproach. --Neh. ii. 17. Syn: Disrepute; discredit; dishonor; opprobrium; invective; contumely; reviling; abuse; vilification; scurrility; insolence; insult; scorn; contempt ... scurrility, insolence, scorn, contempt. 2. Dishonor, disgrace, shame, disrepute, obloquy, opprobrium, odium, scandal, ignominy, infamy, abasement, indignity, insult. 3. Dishonor, disgrace ...

12 Dishonor -- rank: 429

... whom it is drawn. Syn: Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Dishonor Dis*hon"or, v. t ... n. Disgrace, discredit, disrepute, reproach, degradation, shame, ignominy, obloquy, infamy, opprobrium, odium, scandal, abasement. II. v. a. 1. Disgrace, discredit, degrade ... nondischarge of debts, nonpayment, nonremittal, not pay, obloquy, odium, offend, opprobrium, outrage, pillory, poor reputation, profane, protest, protested bill, public dishonor ...

13 Discredit -- rank: 339

... loss of credit or credence. 2. Disrepute, dishonor, disgrace, reproach, opprobrium, obloquy, odium, ignominy, ill repute. II. v. a. 1. Disbelieve ... admit, not believe, not buy, not swallow, nullifidianism, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, pillory, poor reputation, prove the contrary, public dishonor, puncture, put ...

14 ROMAN EMPIRE AND CHRISTIANITY, 2 -- rank: 339

... were "hated and reviled by the whole human race." This opprobrium was accentuated by the attacks of philosophy upon Christianity. When ... upon them. (5) For whatever reason, they had earned the opprobrium of the populace. "The hatred for the Jews passed over ...

15 Obloquy -- rank: 339

... 1: state of disgrace resulting from public abuse [syn: obloquy, opprobrium] 2: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious ... loss of honor, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, odium, opprobrium, overcriticalness, pestering, pettifogging, priggishness, quibble, quibbling, rap, reflection, reproachfulness, revilement ...