"obloquy" is an acceptable word in written English.
It means strong criticism or verbal abuse, so you would use it when referring to someone being accused or criticized harshly. For example: "The political candidate was on the receiving end of much obloquy from the media."
HE IS the "sceptical environmentalist" whose claim that the planet is in far healthier shape than most greens maintain has brought him worldwide obloquy from them.
Some politicians and pundits, braving obloquy by association, say the splurge of purported whistle-blowing is paralysing the work of government by deterring decision-making, stifling initiative and rewarding politicians and civil servants who do nothing, and hence do no wrong.
Any club which is not seen by its supporters to be spending every available penny on moving up the ranks risks obloquy; and with a limited pool of decent players, everyone is on a spending treadmill.
Mr Nusseibeh has drawn obloquy from Palestinian radicals for his outspoken condemnations of terrorism, and his persistent advocacy of a return to negotiation.
Boris Nemtsov, co-founder of a committee set up to make sure he leaves on schedule, says that, if he does want to stick around, international obloquy would give him greater pause than domestic opinion.
Sir Martin Gilbert, official biographer of Churchill, who is a Jew and an authority on the Holocaust, has said that Pius XII, far from deserving obloquy, should be a candidate for Yad Vashem's order of "righteous Gentiles".The Vatican's beatification process, now 26 years old, has been an incessant source of friction between the Vatican and Israel.
(This also means that no exit poll may be made public before the closure of polling stations on Sunday night).Typically, this reprieve is greeted with a sigh of relief by the electorate, by now weary of the mud-slinging, empty promises, unmeritorious drivel and obloquy that are the hallmark of Polish (and many other) elections.
Cranmer was a very human man who in consequence has attracted a good deal of obloquy from those who have not had to share his tribulations and temptations.
His strong defense of the papacy against the divine right of kings made him unpopular with the English Reformers of the 16th century, for whom "dunce" (a Dunsman) became a word of obloquy, yet his theory of intuitive cognition suggested to John Calvin, the Genevan Reformer, how God may be "experienced".
For decades the upper classes, the middle class, had fulfilled this useful function, earning (in communist countries) death, torture and imprisonment, and in more equable countries like Britain, merely obloquy, or irritating obligations, like having to acquire a cockney accent.
Some discussed the question calmly, others less so; but there was something like a consensus that if non-trivial numbers of Republican legislators failed to support the stimulus bill the fault, and the obloquy, would be Obama's.
