obloquy
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The statements made by the D.A.’s office, the complaint alleges, made Thomas “the object of obloquy and ridicule.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024
Pola Oloixarac’s debut, “Savage Theories,” a multilayered novel spanning eras and continents, generated both adulation and obloquy.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2021
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
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
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With ponderous trimmings the ceremonies start; the picture runs its petty pace; friends cheer friends; foes whisper obloquies.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It was a Chicago paper, and it had obloquies of Ricks in every paragraph.
From The Gentle Grafter by Greening, H. C.
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 Burton, Robert
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 Richardson, Samuel
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