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How to use obloquy in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word obloquy? Here are some examples.

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It is a modern, sentimental fiction always to ladle virtue over the working-class characters and obloquy over the rich ones.
But his stubbornness during the last months of the war caused resentment after the war and some obloquy.
But no one, as far as I know, ever asks what series of events brought Hester to Massachusetts, where so much obloquy is heaped on her.
Amid national and international obloquy and mockery, progress could only be made very discreetly.
She can't be referring to obloquy in general, since it is her campaign that is firing out slurs and false allegations at an astonishing pace.
Jackson has spent his last three albums in a spitting rage about perceived harassment, character assassination and general obloquy.
I do not mean to suggest that these wide receivers are uniquely deserving of obloquy.
It cannot hurt for the dictator to be held up to obloquy and censure for the use of gas.
He dishes out obloquy to former tutors and students and treats the reader to vainglorious self-congratulation.
He didn't mind public debate and obloquy, but he hated personal spite and family quarrels.
She walked towards me with a look of anger and obloquy on her face.
In contrast, protectionism is condemned irrevocably, and customs duties are held up to public obloquy as intolerable insults to the Trade god.
Last year, you remember, I was the subject of much obloquy from gentlemen from the other side for the stand I took on that occasion.
We have stood all the obloquy heaped upon us, and shall continue to do so, if we have your support.
The two motives to which I refer are poverty and fear of social obloquy.
Boris Nemtsov, co-founder of a committee set up to make sure he leaves on schedule, says that, if he does want to stick around, international obloquy would give him greater pause than domestic opinion.
His name undoubtedly stands very high in the present age, and will in all probability go down to posterity with more or less of renown or obloquy.
Examples from Classical Literature
He thought no more of him, and we were set up as a mark of every kind of obloquy.
Why, then, has her memory been covered through centuries with scorn and obloquy?
He shrugged his shoulders as if the obloquy were a tangible load that could be shifted.
Our prisoner, as an added mark of obloquy, was to be crucified between them.
Not that he is in danger of an auto-da-fe, but he is exposed to continued obloquy and persecution.
Abuse and obloquy were heaped upon the Ministers from every quarter.
I said I must be allowed to act under a French name, so that I might be shielded from obloquy in my country, in case of fatal results.
A storm of obloquy and persecution was raised against Garrison.
Of the obloquy he has brought upon his own country I do not speak.
I cared not for obloquy or shame, since he believed me true.
He is one of those who will find eternal obloquy if The Hague Conference comes to a successful termination.
The Army, on Kwannon, was rather more used to obloquy than praise.
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