What's the difference between opprobrium and reproach?

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.

Reproach


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.
  • (v. t.) To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.
  • (v.) The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach.
  • (v.) A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace.
  • (v.) An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We lost to a great team and a great coach, but we want to win the league and we will be back – I have nothing to reproach my players for," he said.
  • (2) This examination leads to eliminate those reproaches because the consumer knows to which he is exposed, being forewarned: -when he is using mineral water at the cure-resort, by the thermal consultant who is watching over him, -when he is using one or the other of the conditioned waters, -either by the medical practictioner, who should give him the contre-indicates; -either by indicating on the label, if not the contre-indicates (like we would hope that they figure on), at least the composition (which now figures within the EEC).
  • (3) Hilary was one of few senior MPs whose expenses claims were totally beyond reproach – no surprise there.
  • (4) Prince Charles is being reproached again for having too many views on his future kingdom.
  • (5) The doctor tells it like it is, without reproach, but setting down the facts firmly.
  • (6) Each session deals with one of the following themes: "reproach & refusal", "request & emotions" and "relapse".
  • (7) First, normal psychological experience, with feelings of guilt, reproach, stability, indifference; deeper awareness is suppressed with the aid of forms of defense such as scientific objectivism, positivism, and reductionism.
  • (8) He told parliament on Tuesday that the public were sick of reproaches and insults.
  • (9) Along the way we invent creative ways to kill each other while trapped and make a pact that if one of us gets a flight out they are allowed to go without the other with no reproach and the other one will make friends with a volleyball.
  • (10) China is exercising the right of self-preservation that every country enjoys according to international law, which is beyond reproach,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters in Beijing.
  • (11) Just the fact of its being there at all took my breath away - a discordant modernist appendage to the gilded baroque former courthouse which is the entrance to the museum, and thus a symbolic reproach to bürgerlich Berlin itself.
  • (12) The MPs' report said today: "We conclude that Mr Andrew MacKay breached the rules relating to second home allowances by wrongly designating his home in Bromsgrove as his main home for ACA purposes and because his claims against ACA for his London home were not beyond reproach.
  • (13) The most striking observations were the relative paucity of depressed mood, self-reproach, and suicidal ideation in patients with major depression.
  • (14) The integrity of the commissioner of police must be beyond reproach.
  • (15) Mossack Fonseca has always insisted that it acts “beyond reproach” and that, in 40 years, it has “never been accused or charged in connection with criminal wrongdoing”.
  • (16) In cardiac surgery mainly new neurological deficits are content of malpractice reproach; in vascular surgery artery injuries and surgical procedures to correct varicose veins are most often involved.
  • (17) The prime minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, had earlier insisted MPs must be “beyond reproach” regarding their financial activities.
  • (18) Furthermore, we found out that the life events of the "patients grown up during the postwar period" were limited to the personal interests and that they rarely suffered from self-reproach or feeling of guilt.
  • (19) The public admission by the man who led France's fight against tax evasion that he secretly defrauded the taxman and was "caught in a spiral of lies" is a huge embarrassment for Hollande, who promised that his government would be beyond reproach after the corruption allegations that dogged previous French administrations.
  • (20) At the start of this month, the archbishop of Canterbury won near universal praise for his public reproach of the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, during a trip to Harare.