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  • noun Plural form of obloquy.

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Examples

  • Flabby area around your abdomen or 'obloquies' is very problematic to deal with and it is often neglected in the process of weight loss or while working on stomach and abs area.

    Fast weight loss? 2009

  • Friedman himself couldn't decide whether to be amused or annoyed by the obloquies; he later wryly noted that he had given communist dictatorships the same advice he gave Pinochet, without raising leftist hackles.

    How Milton Friedman Saved Chile Bret Stephens 2010

  • Friedman himself couldn't decide whether to be amused or annoyed by the obloquies; he later wryly noted that he had given communist dictatorships the same advice he gave Pinochet, without raising leftist hackles.

    How Milton Friedman Saved Chile Bret Stephens 2010

  • Presents a series of obloquies as a method of describing the main techniques used by the search marketing community and complaints about them.

    Internet News: Advertising Archives 2009

  • As the barking of a dog, I securely contemn those malicious and scurrile obloquies, flouts, calumnies of railers and detractors; I scorn the rest.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Vatinius was wont to scoff at his own deformed feet, to prevent his enemies 'obloquies and sarcasms in that kind; or else by prevention, as Cotys, king of

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For did God this — obloquies of empty morals are yours.

    The Lost Jewish Culture Bloom, Harold 2007

  • Complaining as he did, in a half-menacing strain, of the obloquies raised against him — ‘That if he were innocent, he should despise the obloquy: if not, revenge would not wipe off his guilt.’

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • They of whom I speak, be they under what reproach or obloquies soever, they are all true men, all the children of one

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • That he doth require this indispensably of us is, I suppose, out of question amongst us, although the most who are called Christians live as if they had no other design but to cast all obloquies, reproach, and shame on him and his doctrine.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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