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  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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  obloquy
      n 1: state of disgrace resulting from public abuse [syn:
           obloquy, opprobrium]
      2: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious
         misrepresentation of someone's words or actions [syn:
         defamation, calumny, calumniation, obloquy,
         traducement, hatchet job]

  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