| Amid national and international obloquy and mockery, progress could only be made very discreetly. |
| He didn't mind public debate and obloquy, but he hated personal spite and family quarrels. |
| But his stubbornness during the last months of the war caused resentment after the war and some obloquy. |
| 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. |
| He dishes out obloquy to former tutors and students and treats the reader to vainglorious self-congratulation. |
| 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. |
