It's this high-handed brand of yobbishness that has drawn most public opprobrium.

Few crimes attract more public opprobrium than assaults on older people in their homes.

What a difference a couple of days and an avalanche of public opprobrium makes.

Local government officials, wary of public opprobrium, have refused permission for the plants to restart.

A period of sharp public opprobrium followed, traces of which, I suppose, will always remain.

And the power of public opprobrium and harm to one's brand are damaging enough, he said.

The Standard Oil Company was the beneficiary of methods that have deservedly received great public opprobrium.

But facing political and public opprobrium in American, BP has little choice other than to look east.

That their punishment consists of public opprobrium and a loss of valuable opportunities is only the half of it.

For one thing, as a journalist he belongs to a group that jostles with lawyers in the public opprobrium stakes.

Narcissistic injuries - life crises, such as abandonment, divorce, financial difficulties, incarceration, public opprobrium - can bring the whole thing tumbling down.

Broad, on the other hand, is viewed as mercurial, inconsistent, off the pace all too often, and not infrequently the source of public opprobrium.

Further huge pay awards this year suggest that far from being held back by public opprobrium, directors' salaries are stepping up to a new level.

Angelo Poliziano had passed away this year, on September 24th, "loaded with as much infamy and public opprobrium as a man could well bear."

Public opprobrium extended also to his supporters.