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obloquy
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synonyms: opprobrium, calumny, vituperation, invective, contumely, odium, censure, reproach ???
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Definition:1. Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension.2. Cause of reproach; disgrace. [Obs.]gratuitous sound file: by SoundsExciting, used unter the Attribution License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/https://freesound.org/people/SoundsExciting/sounds/205651/ (original trimmed/edited to reduce file size)
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There are multitudes of slaves temporarily owned, and sold again, by merchants in northern cities; and shall the whole guilt or obloquy of slavery fall only on the South?
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Who would not, when there was the pretext of casting disgrace upon him, confound his whole life and the truths he had espoused, in one heap of obloquy?
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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