A state of extreme dishonor, consisting in being an object of a very serious public reproach approved by the great majority of the population.
State of disgrace resulting from public abuse.
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Examples for "obloquy "
Examples for "obloquy "
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.
1 The opprobrium rested upon him then; let the honor be his now.
2 This attracted further opprobrium , with someone clucking 'disgraceful' as he passed them.
3 For many, Africa is a target of racism and opprobrium , not partnership.
4 The parson foundered in a storm of opprobrium , scorn, and ironic laughter.
5 The Birmingham man remains appreciative of his body art, despite the opprobrium .
6 It's this high-handed brand of yobbishness that has drawn most public opprobrium .
7 Hid idea is a dictionary shouldn't contain terms of racial opprobrium .
8 In his Emissions column recently, Kilian Doyle cast opprobrium on Dublin's motorcycle couriers.
9 This attack on St George of Orwell met with near-universal opprobrium and derision.
10 Every form in which shame and opprobrium could overwhelm her darling, haunted her.
11 And consider the opprobrium endured by Garda whistleblowers Maurice McCabe and John Wilson.
12 The Quakers, even, had not at that time redeemed themselves from the opprobrium .
13 Inevitably, this failed to remove the cloud of opprobrium now surrounding the judge.
14 MAFF has earned international opprobrium for its unaccommodating attitude toward B.S.E.
15 Historians have united to pour upon John every species of opprobrium .
16 He wasn't quite sure, but somehow it sounded like a term of opprobrium .
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