Opróbrio (Pt.) is such a hard word to say that Portuguese also countenances opróbio. In the rare instances when I use that word (never!), I do try to insert that other r.opprobrium \uh-PRO-bree-uhm\, noun:
1. Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt.
2. A cause or object of reproach or disgrace.
"Typically academic," they disdainfully observed about many university press books--"too dry, too specialized, too self-absorbed for us." In their world, the word "academic" was as much a term of opprobrium as the word "middlebrow" was in mine.
--Janice A. Radway, A Feeling for Books
Five months after Malaysia incurred global opprobrium by closing off its currency and capital markets, its officials are in no mood to apologize.
--Mark Landler, "Malaysia Says Its Much-Criticized Financial Strategy Has Worked," New York Times, February 14, 1999
Opprobrium derives from Latin opprobrare, "to reproach," from ob, "in the way of" + probrum, "reproach." The adjective form is opprobrious.
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