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    Use "obloquy" in a sentence

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    obloquy


    1. Then follows a shower of obloquy and abuse, and his rejection by the world


    2. stone of stumbling and a rock of offence? For who would understand the work within him? Who would not, when there was the pretext of casting disgrace upon him, confound his whole life and the truths he had espoused, in one heap of obloquy?


    3. But he acted as he did regardless of obloquy and people's prejudices, simply to satisfy his strange whims, and from frugality and excessive carefulness: all this, however, will be much clearer later on


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    Synonyms for "obloquy"

    calumniation calumny defamation hatchet job obloquy traducement opprobrium discredit dishonour aspersion disgrace blame infamy censure slander backbiting accusation insult objection

    "obloquy" definitions

    state of disgrace resulting from public abuse


    a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions