Obloquy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  obloquy
       n 1: state of disgrace resulting from public abuse [syn: {opprobrium}]
       2: a malicious attack [syn: {defamation}, {calumny}, {traducement},
           {hatchet job}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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