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US
/ˈɔbɫəˌkwi/
]
[ UK /ˈɒbləkwˌi/ ]
[ UK /ˈɒbləkwˌi/ ]
NOUN
- state of disgrace resulting from public abuse
- a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
How To Use obloquy In A Sentence
- The two motives to which I refer are poverty and fear of social obloquy.
- Behind all the hysterical and gaudy obloquy is the suspicion that each could have been everything he ever promised he would be - and, in the common imagination, still can be.
- She can't be referring to obloquy in general, since it is her campaign that is firing out slurs and false allegations at an astonishing pace.
- I have had enough obloquy for one lifetime.
- Amid national and international obloquy and mockery, progress could only be made very discreetly.
- First spotted at the beginning of the second millennium in a Latin-to-Anglo-Saxon glossary under the heading “Concerning Tools of Farmers,” it is now “a term of obloquy.” No Uncertain Terms
- The European democracies have received, with overwhelmingly good reason, much obloquy for their failure to take effective measures against fascism in the 1930s.
- She walked towards me with a look of anger and obloquy on her face.
- But his stubbornness during the last months of the war caused resentment after the war and some obloquy.
- Napalm's employment in the Vietnam war attracted particular obloquy.
