Halifax commented " I have had enough obloquy for one lifetime " ( i . e . as Viceroy of India ) before accepting appointment as Foreign Secretary.
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The Republicans who crafted the cruel welfare " reform " legislation that is now in the hands of congressional conferees deserve the obloquy of decent and compassionate Americans.
23.
There is no obloquy in the term, since it is used by people as varied as the former mayor of Jerusalem Ehud Olmert, and by numerous Israeli scholars.
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The original sense of obloquy was " evil-speaking, " but the current sense is the result of all the defamation, vituperation and invective : disgrace.
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Because the adjective infamous is within the periphery of understanding of most English speakers, the noun infamy was a better choice than, say, obloquy or the more bookish opprobrium.
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For the latter, the obloquy of their neighbors may be enough retribution for both sides, as long as the survivors are given the truth, consolation, and concrete help.
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The 53-year-old statute prohibited anonymous publication, if doing so " tends to expose any individual or religious group to hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy ."
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Maybe next year will at last see the demise of the Milosevic regime, brought down peaceably from within by the economic misery and international obloquy it has inflicted upon the Serbian nation.
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His middle-class bribe was seen as a ploy to pre-empt the incoming Republicans; liberals heaped obloquy on his head for selling out, and centrist Democrats knew he was insincere.
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For by one great effort he had rolled back the tide of obloquy under which the most honoured of our national names had been buried so long, and restored it to its proper eminence and lustre.
