| Amid national and international obloquy and mockery, progress could only be made very discreetly. |
| In contrast, protectionism is condemned irrevocably, and customs duties are held up to public obloquy as intolerable insults to the Trade god. |
| It cannot hurt for the dictator to be held up to obloquy and censure for the use of gas. |
| It is a modern, sentimental fiction always to ladle virtue over the working-class characters and obloquy over the rich ones. |
| He didn't mind public debate and obloquy, but he hated personal spite and family quarrels. |
| She can't be referring to obloquy in general, since it is her campaign that is firing out slurs and false allegations at an astonishing pace. |
