opprobrium

• “Of course, most transgenerational obligations run the other way -- from parents to children -- and of these the most obvious candidate for opprobrium is our wasteful attitude toward the planet's natural resources and ecology.”

  The Washington Post: What will future generations condemn us for?

• “That if worse things mean the opprobrium is excessive, then things less bad — many of which involve talk – mean the opprobrium is too low.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Indictment for Chat Room Posts Urging Particular People to Commit Suicide

• “Rather than rain opprobrium on the "inexperienced bicyclists" perhaps it can be stated that there were just too many cyclists.”

  Sunday Parkways: not really a pedestrian thing (Jack Bog's Blog)

• “Unless we simply presume a priori that Israelis are evil, I really do not see why the Israelis would want to provoke an attack so that they could kill a handful of passengers and suffer further opprobrium from the rest of the world.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenwald and Gaza

• “The two professors who started all this complained in their op-ed that "George Mason University received over $23 million from Koch brothers foundations to hire seven libertarian professors," as though "libertarian" were a term of opprobrium.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Professors to Koch Brothers: Take Your Green Back

• “Whether in a newspaper essay or the mouth of Betsy King, “antifederalist” was a term of opprobrium.”

  Simon & Schuster: Ratification

• “Is this not a big signal to HRC funders: Penn sees HRC's race as sufficiently doomed that it makes sense to him now, net/net, to risk this near-term opprobrium in order to assure future Burson Marsteller business?”

  Report: Mark Penn Met With Colombian Ambassador To Talk Trade

• “The effect of the rehash is to make those who believed in – or claimed to believe in – the forgeries look perhaps marginally less stupid and to shift some of the opprobrium from the Italian authorities to Niger Embassy staff.”

  Firedoglake » Judge Rules in Libby Case and Other Matters

• “In fact, it was coined in Germany only in the second half of the 19th century and was first used in English several decades later with the classical sense of "hetero" "other, different", making it initially a term of opprobrium.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “My late father, the sociologist Michael Young, coined the word "meritocracy" - but as a term of opprobrium rather than approval.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph

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