Word Meanings - OBLOQUY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension. Shall names that made yuor city the glory of the earth be mentioned with obloquy and detraction Addison. 2. Cause of reproach;

Additional info about word: OBLOQUY

1. Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension. Shall names that made yuor city the glory of the earth be mentioned with obloquy and detraction Addison. 2. Cause of reproach; disgrace. Shak. Syn. -- Reproach; odium; censure; contumely; gainsaying; reviling; calumny; slander; detraction.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OBLOQUY)

• Abuse
• Mistreatment
• invective
• ill-treatment
• opprobrium
• scurrility
• vituperation
• ribaldry
• obloquy
• reproach
• insolence
• misusage
• ill-usage
• Clamor
• Contention
• contentiousness
• squabble
• tumult
• hubbub
• noise
• uproar
• outcry
• Contumely
• Contemptuousness
• scornfulness
• arrogance
• disrespect
• Ignominy
• Disgrace
• reprobation
• shame
• contempt
• dishonor
• infamy
• Infamy
• Despair
• degradation
• disgrace
• ignominy
• extreme vileness

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OBLOQUY)

• Hope
• trust
• confide
• rely
• presume
• rally
• Laud
• praise
• approve
• commend

Related words: (words related to OBLOQUY)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• CONFIDER
  One who confides.
• CONFIDENCE
  1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in
• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• IGNOMINY
  a deprivation of one's good name); in- not + nomen name: cf. F. 1. Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy. Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours with ignominy after conquest. Addison. Vice begins in mistake,
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• TRUSTEE
  A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects
• TRUSTY
  1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
• SHAMEFAST
  Modest; shamefaced. -- Shame"fast*ly, adv. -- Shame"fast*ness, n. See Shamefaced. Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 .
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• OPPROBRIUM
  Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey.
• CLAMOROUS
  Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness,
• UPROARIOUS
  Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n.
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• DESPAIRING
  Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. -- De*spair"ing*ly, adv. -- De*spair"ing*ness, n.
• CONFIDENT
  See DRYDEN
• CONTUMELY
  Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace. The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. Shak. Nothing aggravates tyranny so much as contumely.
• CONTEMPTIBLY
  In a contemptible manner.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• SELF-TRUST
  Faith in one's self; self-reliance.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.