(v. t.) To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.
(v. t.) To bring reproach upon; to blemish.
(v.) An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.
(v.) That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin.
(v.) Hurt; injury.
Example Sentences:
(1) An official inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal blamed failings by Rotherham council and South Yorkshire police.
(2) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
(3) While superheroes like “superman” (21st in SplashData’s 2014 rankings) and “batman” (24th) may be popular choices for passwords, the results if they are cracked could be anything other than super – and users will only have themselves to blame.
(4) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
(5) He can open doors anywhere and they would at least have someone else to blame.
(6) Doctors have blamed rising levels of type 2 diabetes on the growing number of overweight and obese adults.
(7) It was only up to jurors to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, should share in the blame.
(8) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
(9) The orchestrated round of warnings from the Obama administration did not impress a coterie of senior Republicans who were similarly paraded on the talk shows, blaming the White House for having brought the country to the brink of yet another "manufactured crisis".
(10) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(11) President Nicolás Maduro has blamed the crisis on the fall in global oil prices, a drought that has hit hydroelectric power generation, and an “economic war” by rightwing businessmen and politicians.
(12) Religious efforts to address the issue have also been complicit in absolving men of their crimes, objectifying women and doing more harm than good with campaigns that blame women for the phenomenon.
(13) Our failure to understand kidney function in the neonate does not justify shifting the blame for unwanted disturbances in fluid and electrolyte balance, metabolic acidosis, and azotemia to a small kidney.
(14) Communal riots are not unique to Gujarat, but the chief ministers of other states have not been blamed when pogroms have erupted on their watch.
(15) If Thatcher's government is in part to blame, then Bill Clinton's is even more so; driven by a desire to let every American own their own home, it was Clinton's decision to create the ill-fated sub-prime mortgage system .
(16) OPM hack: China blamed for massive breach at US federal agency Read more The full scale of the information the attackers accessed remains unknown but could include highly sensitive data such as medical records, employment files and financial details, as well as information on security clearances and more.
(17) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
(18) I can’t stay here anymore.” When his mother calls, he says, he refuses to talk to her, blaming her in part for his predicament.
(19) A sclerotic patriarchal social system is also to blame.
(20) Engie, the owner of Rugeley coal-fired station in Staffordshire, which made the most recent closure announcement earlier this month, blamed low wholesale power prices as much as carbon taxes for its decision .
Opprobrium
Definition:
(n.) Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Opprobrium didn’t pour down on McIntyre out of respect for historical veracity.
(2) She has risked opprobrium in Ireland for speaking out about having a termination in England because her baby would have been born dead.
(3) We need to rediscover what it is to be a human, and that every human being matters.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Police use tear gas on migrants who attempt to breach an inner fence of the Eurotunnel in Coquelles on Saturday night On Thursday the prime minister drew international opprobrium when he described migrants trying to reach Britain as a “ swarm ” and promised to introduce strong-arm tactics, including extra sniffer dogs and fencing, at Calais.
(4) "Being a branded company clearly brings opprobrium," he said.
(5) Though her report focused on failures in RMBC, Casey reserves some opprobrium for South Yorkshire police.
(6) But Mr Rowland was also a tax exile for decades, before returning last year and donating millions to the Tory party; and it would be fair to assume that Mr Cameron could have expected some opprobrium (not least from his own MPs) for appointing such a recent returnee from the tax haven of Guernsey to a prominent position within his party.
(7) Earlier in the summer, the Jimmy Reid Foundation asked Glasgow's council to erect a plaque that would "write back into history" the city's revolutionary socialists and pacifists whose opposition to what they saw as a capitalist and imperialist conflict earned them jail sentences, ill-health and opprobrium.
(8) Like holding their nose and jumping into a cold pool, Tesco bosses decided that the transparency was worth the opprobrium, which I think will turn out to be true.
(9) Gender hierarchy and separate socialization precluded a heterosexual construction of any such equality in the Renaissance, and the greater opprobrium cast on male homosexuality in this era must have influenced Donne's decision to figure his equal lovers and friends as a lesbian couple.
(10) While those in the west argue for fundamental reform and a president who can restore global trust, it must be remembered that two-thirds of Fifa’s 209 members (who each hold equal voting rights, from the Cayman Islands to China) voted for Blatter’s re-election despite the scale of international opprobrium.
(11) If an agreement could be reached before he dies, it might avoid a repetition of the confusion and international opprobrium that has surrounded the botched handling of the Panchen Lama succession.
(12) Many others are tolerant of the migrants, who inspire as much pity as opprobrium.
(13) He is the hands-on chief executive to Cameron’s aloof chairman of the board and is therefore the natural focus of Labour’s opprobrium.
(14) Cruz is used to mainstream Republican opprobrium – John McCain famously described him and fellow conservative Rand Paul as "wacko birds" – but he briefly became the most hated figure in Congress when he then failed to follow through on his strategy by winning enough support in the Senate, leaving Boehner blamed for shutting down the government.
(15) His young starting strike force of Ji Dong-won and Connor Wickham were subjected to the lion's share of the opprobrium in the wake of their side's reverse and will have been dismayed by the manner in which their work rate, character and intelligence were traduced.
(16) was apparently struggling with this part.” Reddit users rebel over banning of fat-shaming subforums Read more Much of the opprobrium from Reddit users has been focused on the site’s chief executive, Ellen Pao, who took over the top job in November 2014.
(17) Similarities between the two groups appeared due to (1) pharmacologic effects of narcotic addiction and (2) low social opprobrium toward addiction in both cultures.
(18) But having revived his career at the BBC not even Cresswell could stem the opprobrium heaped on his client in the wake of "Sachsgate" and Ross's 13-year run at the BBC came to an end.
(19) "Exploiting western opprobrium of the behaviour of the current government of Iran, the (MEK) posit themselves as the alternative.
(20) Barack Obama on Sunday led politicians, sports stars and other public figures in condemning racist comments attributed to the Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, a barrage of opprobrium likely to swell with the leaking of apparently additional remarks.