obloquy - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • suffer: His family, tho members of the Church of England, were in sympathy with the Methodist movement, and suffered obloquy in consequence.
  • face: The passion for wealth gives a kind of spurious courage to face obloquy.

Adjective modifier

  • such: Robinson attracted no such obloquy: indeed she alleged that " few doubt he would read republicans better than David Trimble " .

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