Obloquy \Ob"lo*quy\ ([o^]b"l[-o]*kw[y^]), n. [L. obloquium, fr.
obloqui. See Oblocutor.]
1. Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that
casts contempt on men or their actions; blame;
reprehension.
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Shall names that made your city the glory of the
earth be mentioned with obloquy and detraction?
--Addison.
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2. Cause of reproach; disgrace. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Syn: Reproach; odium; censure; contumely; gainsaying;
reviling; calumny; slander; detraction.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
obloquy
n 1: state of disgrace resulting from public abuse [syn: opprobrium]
2: a malicious attack [syn: defamation, calumny, traducement,
hatchet job]
WordNet (r) 2.0
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "obloquy":
abuse, adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices,
bad press, billingsgate, calumny, captiousness, carping, cavil,
caviling, censoriousness, contumely, criticism, degradation,
demotion, depluming, discredit, disesteem, dishonor, displuming,
disrepute, exception, faultfinding, flak, hairsplitting, hit,
home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism,
ignobility, ignominiousness, ignominy, imputation, infamousness,
infamy, ingloriousness, invective, knock, loss of honor, nagging,
niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, odium, opprobrium,
overcriticalness, pestering, pettifogging, priggishness, quibble,
quibbling, rap, reflection, reproachfulness, revilement,
scurrility, shame, slam, slur, stricture, swipe, taking exception,
trichoschistism, vilification, vituperation
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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