opprobrium

noun

1 the government endured months of opprobrium:

vilification, abuse, vituperation, condemnation, criticism, censure, castigation, denunciation, defamation, denigration, disparagement, obloquy, derogation, slander, revilement, reviling, calumny, calumniation, execration, excoriation, lambasting, upbraiding, bad press, character assassination, attack, invective, libel, insults, aspersions;

informal flak, mud-slinging, bad-mouthing, tongue-lashing;

British, informal stick, verbal, slagging off;

archaic contumely;

rare animadversion, objurgation.

▷antonyms praise.

2 the opprobrium of being associated with gangsters and thugs:

disgrace, shame, dishonour, discredit, stigma, humiliation, loss of face, ignominy, odium, obloquy, disfavour, disrepute, ill repute, infamy, notoriety, scandal, stain;

rare disesteem.

▷antonyms honour.

opprobrium Oxford Dictionary of English