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  • It is to the churches shame that these devout Catholics were treated with oppobrium when even a muslim was kissed up to before a new order Catholic would be around a Traditionalist.

    The validity of the original SSPX excommunications... 2009

  • David Denby's otherwise very favorable review in The New Yorker singled out the James Newton Howard score for special oppobrium, but I didn't mind it at all.

    Archive 2009-01-01 The Brillig Blogger 2009

  • How much better would your life be if only you could make racialist statements without public oppobrium?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Sotomayor’s “Latina Judge’s Voice” Speech Revisited: 2009

  • David Denby's otherwise very favorable review in The New Yorker singled out the James Newton Howard score for special oppobrium, but I didn't mind it at all.

    this little piggy went to the cinema The Brillig Blogger 2009

  • We deserve the oppobrium because of our exploitative approach to foreign students-even if the Rudd government itself may be just the inheritor of Howard's and Costello's particularly short-termist nasty policies.

    newmatilda.com - Comments incrediblemelk 2010

  • Top boxers, F1 drivers, US sports stars all rake in far more but they never seem to attract the same level of oppobrium.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • But even if it were just commonly used, it is also a term of oppobrium, and even if there is a universal opinion among expert cryptographers that what you call "snake oil" really deserves to be called "snake oil," it does not follow just from that that it is an appropriate name for an encyclopedia article.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • But even if it were just commonly used, it is also a term of oppobrium, and even if there is a universal opinion among expert cryptographers that what you call "snake oil" really deserves to be called "snake oil," it does not follow just from that that it is an appropriate name for an encyclopedia article.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • Well, the common man’s venacular is sometimes the only thing that carries the requisite oppobrium which you clearly deserve.

    Dear Corporate Media: You Disgusting, Chicken-shit, Shills 2007

  • Hedges, who is so marginalized by the corporate forces who control our information systems that a quote of his was used as the start of this year's Oscar winner for Best Picture, will, without a doubt, hear not one word of oppobrium from the same thick chunk of the commentariat that has spent much of the last nine months warning about the imminent outbreak of carnage whipped up by Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and the Tea Party movement.

    Reason Magazine Matt Welch 2010

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