(n.) Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension.
(n.) Cause of reproach; disgrace.
Example Sentences:
(1) While Jacobs went on to enjoy a distinguished career as author and urbanist, Moses descended into increasing obloquy.
(2) A good deal of the obloquy focused personally on Sadik-Kahn, even though her strategy came from Bloomberg’s PlaNYC , his 2007 vision for making an expanding city more green and liveable.
(3) Equally, a partial political retreat would spare them the obloquy that would come their way if they denied the NLD its place in government.
(4) Sigmar Gabriel, the German foreign minister, points out there will be many far more rightwing governments present in Hamburg than Trump, and they will receive far less obloquy from the expected tens of thousands of street protesters.
(5) Advice from the 'lunchbox doctor' Jenny Tschiesche, a nutritionist and the author of Not Just Sandwiches – five ways to improve your child's lunchbox, says that packed lunches don't deserve the obloquy they have attracted, and that many parents want the choice, especially those who have children with allergies or food intolerances.
Vituperate
Definition:
(v. t.) To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Paul Bradshaw, a reader in online journalism at Birmingham City University, thinks the lack of vituperation about Facebook has different reasons.
(2) When Labour was finally returned to power in 1964, her reputation was for division within the party and personal vituperation against enemies outside it.
(3) I've become wearily accustomed to this over my time working with Assange: the vituperation heaped on my author, the scorn directed at me for giving him a platform.
(4) Makoni said: "All this vituperation, my reading of it, is like grapes are sour.
(5) And Levin, like a prosecuting barrister, hunched and coiled with sardonic vituperation, would describe Charles Forte's catering company, to Forte's face, as "lazy, inefficient, dishonest, dirty and complacent".
(6) Despite this, Lawson magnanimously re-employed Waugh as a novel reviewer, where he honed his talent for vituperation, which he later and even more brilliantly practised in the obscure magazine Books & Bookmen.
(7) Their historical narrative is about victimisation by the west: Erdogan has attacked the “making of Sykes-Picot agreements”, in a reference to the 1916 Franco-British carve-up of the Ottoman empire; Putin vituperates against the “so-called victors in the cold war” that have “decided to reshape the world” and “committed many follies”.
(8) One thing is unavoidable, whether seen through the prism of admiration as "Arik the king" or vituperation as "the butcher", Sharon forged his path on the battlefield through the force of his personality, an extraordinary self-belief of his place in history and in his importance.