obloquy

How to use obloquy in a sentence

• The moral obloquy for that choice falls on those who make it, not on those who react to it.

  Take Responsibility for Your Actions, Iran! | David Frum | November 21, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

• But in his own time the obloquy will probably make as much noise and find as much credit as the panegyric.

  The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington Macaulay

• Our own opinion is that incompetent as it was the budget attracted to itself a good deal of unmerited obloquy.

  British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Volume LIV | Various

• The more they could throw discredit and obloquy upon the Maid of Orleans, the better their cause would seem.

  Beacon Lights of History, Volume VII | John Lord

• Why should we, the travellers of the world, who so admire other cities, so persistently pour obloquy on our own?

  Highways and Byways in London | Mrs. E. T. Cook.