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obloquy

[ob-luh-kwee] / ˈɒb lə kwi /


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That’s a shame, because the airline’s 11 outside directors are arguably the guiltiest of the guilty parties in the company’s recent fiasco, the most deserving of obloquy.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 3, 2023

Barnes is seeking “damages in an amount not less than $15,000 but not more than $50,000 against each defendant” because his clients were “subjected to public hatred, contempt, scorn, obloquy, and shame.”

From Fox News Jan. 10, 2020

Western intellectuals deserve their usual share of the obloquy.

From New York Times Oct. 16, 2017

As a result, she became an unwilling media figure and victim who, long after her father’s conviction and imprisonment, was subjected to obloquy and harassment.

From The New Yorker Nov. 15, 2016

A great deal of obloquy fell on Lawrence and his colleagues at the Rad Lab, who had stood united, and virtually alone, against Oppenheimer.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

With ponderous trimmings the ceremonies start; the picture runs its petty pace; friends cheer friends; foes whisper obloquies.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a Chicago paper, and it had obloquies of Ricks in every paragraph.

From The Gentle Grafter by H. C. Greening

As the barking of a dog, I securely contemn those malicious and scurrile obloquies, flouts, calumnies of railers and detractors; I scorn the rest.

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Complaining as he did, in a half-menacing strain, of the obloquies raised against him—'That if he were innocent, he should despise the obloquy: if not, revenge would not wipe off his guilt.'

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson




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