Opprobrium vs Ochlagogue - What's the difference?
opprobrium | ochlagogue |
Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy.
Scornful reproach or contempt
A cause of shame or disgrace.
(rare) A manipulator of a mob who holds sway by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; an extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogue; one who practises ochlagogy.
* 1931 : Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, and Owen Seaman, Punch ,
As nouns the difference between opprobrium and ochlagogue
is that opprobrium is disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy while ochlagogue is a manipulator of a mob who holds sway by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; an extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogue; one who practises ochlagogy.opprobrium
English
Noun
- Don't give him a term of opprobrium .
Quotations
* (English Citations of "opprobrium")Synonyms
* (scornful reproach) blame, castigation, censure, defamation, derision, invective, libel, reproach, revilement, scolding, signifying, tirade, upbraiding, vilification, vituperation * (cause of shame or disgrace) curseochlagogue
English
Noun
(en noun)page 310(Punch Publications Ltd.)
- Ochlagogue ! What a name for an Irish horse! EVOK.