Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
Source : WordNet®
opprobrium
n 1: 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 opprobrium throughout the city" [syn: {infamy}] [ant:
{fame}]