A false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions.
State of disgrace resulting from public abuse.
1 I have encountered ridicule and obloquy ; but I do not mind them.
2 Yet it is too much to cast such obloquy on the age.
3 I must become her protector, in order to preserve her from obloquy .
4 Not so are we to exempt great criminals from punishment and obloquy .
5 The Army, on Kwannon, was rather more used to obloquy than praise.
6 I cared not for obloquy or shame, since he believed me true.
7 This is a miserable subterfuge to shift the obloquy from the judgment.
8 Then they might drive me forth heaped with obloquy , if they chose.
9 At present, however, the UDP has incurred no such sustained obloquy .
10 They appear to be held in considerable obloquy by the Moslems.
11 This effectively means that the holder of this office is protected from obloquy .
12 And he is traduced, derided, despised, held up to public obloquy and loathing.
13 The advocates of abolition are no longer consigned to unmitigated contempt and obloquy .
14 He supports her, and she has escaped the obloquy of old-maidism.
15 Juries that convict for the crown will be loaded with obloquy .
16 Marie ignored the obloquy and brushed past her, ducking down into the cabin.
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