term of opprobrium

noun phrase

formal

: a word that is used to show disapproval

a group of critics who use "romanticism" as a term of opprobrium

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By the late 1930s, isolationism had become a powerful term of opprobrium. —

Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2020

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