What's the difference between opprobrium and revilement?
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.
Revilement
Definition:
(n.) The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Though no doubt he reviles Goldsmith’s racism, he doesn’t detest it quite enough to lend a hand to oust him.
(2) Thank God, then, for The Execution Of Gary Glitter (Mon, 9pm, Channel 4), which vividly envisions the trial and subsequent capital punishment of pop's most reviled sex offender so you don't have to.
(3) read one banner, against the woman whose family is reviled for taking tasty slices of state business and contracts, and plundering Tunisia's wealth.
(4) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
(5) A conservative, lower-middle-class district bordering the Golden Horn and predominantly inhabited by Turks from the Black Sea coast, Kasimpasa loves Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the powerful prime minister increasingly reviled across Turkey and tarnished internationally.
(6) No one has reviled us like this since [president James] Polk in 1846” – author of the Mexican-American war – “has reviled us like this,” tweeted historian and public intellectual Enrique Krauze .
(7) Andrew Hodkingson, Steve Revill and Ben Avison are founder members of RISC OS Open Ltd and have worked with ARM technology back to its 26-bit days in Acorn Computers Ltd during the 1990s
(8) Baby boomers are now reviled because we seem to have shaped society to suit ourselves: free university education (my student debt, owed to a frugal friend, was £120 when I left); on the property ladder at just the right time (first house in Wimbledon, bought in 1982, cost £31,000); and never had to worry about internships (I’d never even heard of them when I was a student) or jobs.
(9) Fantastic Four director Josh Trank has distanced himself from the critically reviled superhero epic by claiming the existence of a separate personal cut which audiences will probably never see.
(10) Maybe it’s a coincidence that she was a member of a political class that has been reviled for years and with heightened fervour in recent weeks.
(11) They have been reviled as vandals, hooligans and lunatics.
(12) The levy is intended to raise an additional £13m from the much reviled payday loans industry, and will be seen as another attempt by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband , to take the side of the consumer against "profiteering capitalism".
(13) When it comes to President Bashar al-Assad , Syria’s reviled strongman, Barack Obama says nothing has changed.
(14) Bahrainis often complain that the riot police and special forces do not speak the local dialect, or in the case of Baluchis from Pakistan, do not speak Arabic at all and are reviled as mercenaries.
(15) Emerging to the strains of Eminem’s Lose Yourself, a nod to his reputation as an animated speaker, Ballmer spent much of his speech promising fans that the Clippers would move on from the tumultuous reign of widely reviled former owner Donald Sterling.
(16) Politicians are almost universally reviled and government invariably mistrusted.
(17) It would earn him enemies on the left and the right, make him reviled and nearly send him to jail.
(18) That’s why supposedly whorephobic feminists are so reviled.
(19) The attacks on Homs and Damascus targeted areas dominated by Muslim minorities reviled by the Sunni radicals of Isis.
(20) Its foes, meanwhile, revile the UKFC as a classic example of state bureaucracy – an all-powerful quango that presumes to tell businesses what films they can and cannot make.