obloquy

The word “obloquy” has 3 syllables: ob-lo-quy

It's pronounced as /ˈɒbləkwi/


What is synonym and antonym for obloquy?

In the thesaurus, “obloquy” has 78 synonyms and 31 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for obloquy along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for obloquy

  • abasement
  • abuse
  • animadversion
  • aspersion
  • bad press
  • bad-mouthing
  • belittlement
  • billingsgate
  • blackguardism
  • blasphemy
  • blot
  • brand
  • broadside
  • castigation
  • censure
  • chastisement
  • contempt
  • criticism
  • curse
  • debasement
  • debasing
  • defamation
  • degradation
  • deprecation
  • despite
  • diatribe
  • disapprobation
  • disapproval
  • discredit
  • disdain
  • disesteem
  • disfavor
  • disgrace
  • dishonor
  • disparagement
  • disrepute
  • dust
  • epithet
  • excoriation
  • execration
  • expletive
  • fulmination
  • harangue
  • humbling
  • humiliation
  • ignominy
  • imprecation
  • infamy
  • insult
  • invective
  • malediction
  • odium
  • opprobrium
  • polemic
  • profanity
  • put-down
  • rebuke
  • reprimand
  • reproach
  • reproof
  • revilement
  • scandal
  • scorn
  • scurrility
  • shadow
  • shame
  • slander
  • slur
  • smirch
  • spot
  • stain
  • stigma
  • swearword
  • taint
  • tirade
  • vilification
  • vitriol
  • vituperation

Antonyms for obloquy

  • acclaim
  • admiration
  • adulation
  • applause
  • appreciation
  • approval
  • awe
  • blarney
  • commendation
  • compliment
  • compliments
  • congratulations
  • endearments
  • esteem
  • estimation
  • exaltation
  • fame
  • fear
  • felicitations
  • flattery
  • glorification
  • glory
  • honor
  • overpraise
  • praise
  • regard
  • renown
  • repute
  • respect
  • reverence
  • soft soap

Meanings of obloquy

  • noun
    1. Abusive language.
    2. Disgrace.
    3. A false accusation; malevolent rumors.

Example Sentences

  • The scandal brought obloquy upon the once-respected public figure, tarnishing their reputation irreparably.
  • Despite his good intentions, his actions were met with obloquy from those who misunderstood his motives.
  • The author faced obloquy from critics who accused her of plagiarism, despite evidence to the contrary.
  • The company's decision to lay off workers led to widespread obloquy in the media, sparking public outrage.
  • In times of crisis, leaders often bear the brunt of obloquy, facing criticism for decisions made under pressure.

On this page you'll find 109 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to obloquy, such as: abasement, abuse, acclaim, admiration, adulation, animadversion, applause.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

abuse

  • affront
  • asperse
  • aspersion
  • assail
  • attack
  • backbite
  • bad-mouth
  • bad-mouthing
  • bang up
  • bash
  • beat up
  • beat up on
  • belabor
  • belittle
  • belittlement
  • berate
  • billingsgate
  • blackguard
  • blackguardism
  • blame
  • blaspheme
  • blasphemy
  • blast
  • bleed
  • blow off
  • broadside
  • brutalize
  • bully
  • bung up
  • burn
  • calumniate
  • cap
  • castigate
  • castigation
  • censure
  • chastise
  • chastisement
  • cheat
  • chide
  • commercialize
  • commodify
  • corrupt
  • corruption
  • crime
  • criticism
  • criticize
  • curse
  • curses
  • cuss out
  • cut down
  • cut to the quick
  • cut up
  • damage
  • debase
  • debasement
  • decry
  • defamation
  • defame
  • defile
  • defilement
  • degrade
  • delinquency
  • deprave
  • derision
  • derogate
  • desecrate
  • desecration
  • destruction
  • diatribe
  • discount
  • disparage
  • disparagement
  • dissipate
  • do a number on
  • do an injustice to
  • dump on
  • epithet
  • excoriate
  • excoriation
  • execrate
  • execration
  • exhaust
  • expletive
  • exploit
  • exploitation
  • fault
  • fleece
  • fulminate
  • fulmination
  • give a black eye
  • harangue
  • harass
  • harm
  • harry
  • hose
  • hosing
  • hurl brickbat
  • hurt
  • ill-treat
  • ill-treatment
  • ill-usage
  • ill-use
  • impair
  • impairment
  • impose on
  • imprecate
  • imprecation
  • injure
  • injury
  • injustice
  • insult
  • insults
  • invective
  • jerk around
  • kick around
  • kicking around
  • knifing
  • knock
  • lambast
  • lambaste
  • leverage
  • libel
  • light into
  • malediction
  • malevolence
  • maltreat
  • maltreatment
  • manhandle
  • manhandling
  • manipulate
  • mar
  • mess over
  • mess up
  • milk
  • minimize
  • misapplication
  • misapply
  • misconduct
  • misdeed
  • misemploy
  • misemployment
  • mishandle
  • mishandling
  • mismanage
  • mismanagement
  • mismanaging
  • mistreat
  • mistreatment
  • misusage
  • misuse
  • misutilization
  • molest
  • nag
  • obloquy
  • offend
  • offense
  • oppress
  • opprobrium
  • outrage
  • overburden
  • overcharge
  • overtax
  • overwork
  • persecute
  • perversion
  • pervert
  • pick on
  • pimp
  • polemic
  • pollute
  • pollution
  • potshot
  • profanation
  • profane
  • profanity
  • prostitute
  • prostitution
  • pushing around
  • put down
  • put-down
  • quinine
  • rag on
  • rebuke
  • reprimand
  • reproach
  • reproof
  • revile
  • revilement
  • ride
  • rip up
  • rough up
  • roughhouse
  • ruin
  • run down
  • sail into
  • sandbag
  • savage
  • scathe
  • scold
  • scolding
  • scurrility
  • shake up
  • signify
  • signifying
  • sin
  • skin
  • slam
  • slander
  • slap
  • sling mud
  • slur
  • smear
  • soak
  • sound
  • spoil
  • spoiling
  • squander
  • stick
  • swear at
  • swearing
  • swearword
  • taint
  • take apart
  • tear apart
  • tie into
  • tirade
  • torment
  • torture
  • total
  • trade on
  • traduce
  • trash
  • twist
  • upbraid
  • upbraiding
  • use
  • victimize
  • vilification
  • vilify
  • violate
  • violation
  • vitriol
  • vituperate
  • vituperation
  • walk on
  • waste
  • wax
  • whip
  • work
  • wrecking
  • wrong
  • wrongdoing
  • zing

zinger

  • accusation
  • affront
  • aggression
  • animadversion
  • antic
  • aspersion
  • assailment
  • assault
  • attack
  • back talk
  • bang
  • bar sinister
  • bat
  • battery
  • bell-ringer
  • belt
  • black eye
  • blemish
  • blitz
  • blitzkrieg
  • blot
  • blow
  • blur
  • bonk
  • box
  • brand
  • brickbat
  • buffet
  • butt
  • calumny
  • caper
  • chop
  • clip
  • clout
  • clowning
  • collision
  • comeback
  • crack
  • cuff
  • cut
  • dig
  • dirty dig
  • discredit
  • disgrace
  • dudgeon
  • dump
  • escapade
  • farce
  • fisticuff
  • frolic
  • gag
  • glance
  • harm
  • hit
  • huff
  • hurt
  • impact
  • indignation
  • indignity
  • injury
  • injustice
  • innuendo
  • insinuation
  • insult
  • joke
  • knock
  • lark
  • laugh
  • left-handed compliment
  • lick
  • miff
  • mischief
  • monkeyshine
  • mugging
  • obloquy
  • odium
  • one-liner
  • one-two punch
  • onset
  • onslaught
  • onus
  • outrage
  • parody
  • paste
  • pat
  • pique
  • plunk
  • prank
  • punch
  • push
  • put down
  • put on
  • put-down
  • quip
  • rap
  • rebuttal
  • reflection
  • remark
  • repartee
  • reproach
  • resentment
  • retort
  • rib
  • riposte
  • roundhouse
  • sally
  • shenanigan
  • shock
  • shot
  • slam
  • slap
  • slap in the face
  • slight
  • slog
  • smack
  • smart crack
  • smash
  • smear
  • snub
  • sock
  • spank
  • squelch
  • stain
  • stigma
  • stricture
  • stroke
  • stunt
  • swat
  • swing
  • swipe
  • tap
  • trick
  • umbrage
  • uppercut
  • wallop
  • whammy
  • whop
  • wisecrack
  • witticism
  • witty comeback
  • witty comment
  • witty remark
  • yarn
  • zap

backstabbing

  • abandonment
  • abuse
  • artful
  • aspersion
  • backbiting
  • beguiling
  • belittlement
  • betrayal
  • betraying
  • black eye
  • blame
  • business
  • calumniation
  • calumny
  • cattiness
  • censure
  • character assassination
  • cheap shot
  • condemnation
  • contempt
  • contumely
  • crafty
  • crime
  • crossing
  • cunning
  • damage
  • debasement
  • deceit
  • deceiving
  • deception
  • deceptive
  • defamation
  • degradation
  • denigration
  • denunciation
  • deprecation
  • depreciation
  • derision
  • derogation
  • desertion
  • detraction
  • dirt
  • dirty laundry
  • dirty linen
  • discredit
  • disdain
  • disesteem
  • disgrace
  • dishonest
  • dishonor
  • disloyalty
  • disparagement
  • disrepute
  • double cross
  • double-crossing
  • double-dealing
  • dump
  • duplicity
  • dynamite
  • eavesdropping
  • faithlessness
  • falseness
  • falsity
  • foxy
  • fraud
  • fraudulent
  • giving away
  • going back on
  • gossip
  • guile
  • guileful
  • harm
  • hearsay
  • hit
  • hurt
  • hypocritical
  • idle rumor
  • ignominy
  • impairment
  • infamy
  • infidelity
  • informing
  • injury
  • injustice
  • innuendo
  • insincere
  • insinuation
  • invective
  • knavish
  • knock
  • lessening
  • libel
  • libeling
  • lie
  • low-down dirty
  • lying
  • malice
  • maligning
  • minimization
  • misleading
  • misrepresentation
  • muckraking
  • mud
  • mud-slinging
  • obloquy
  • opprobrium
  • peaching
  • pejorative
  • perfidy
  • prejudice
  • rap
  • reproach
  • revilement
  • ridicule
  • rumor
  • running down
  • scam
  • scandal
  • scandalmongering
  • scorcher
  • scorn
  • scurrility
  • selling down the river
  • sellout
  • shame
  • shifty
  • shopping
  • sin
  • skeleton in closet
  • slam
  • slander
  • slap in face
  • slime
  • slur
  • sly
  • smear
  • smear campaign
  • sneaky
  • snitching
  • spite
  • spitefulness
  • stabbing in the back
  • swindle
  • tale
  • talebearing
  • talk
  • traducement
  • traducing
  • treachery
  • treason
  • trickery
  • tricky
  • turning in
  • turpitude
  • two-facedness
  • two-timing
  • underestimation
  • underhanded
  • unfaithfulness
  • untruthful
  • vilification
  • vituperation
  • wrong
  • wrongdoing

maligning

  • abasing
  • abominable
  • abuse
  • abusive
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • aspersing
  • aspersion
  • aspersive
  • atrocious
  • attack
  • backbiting
  • backstabbing
  • belittlement
  • belittling
  • bitter
  • blackening
  • calumniating
  • calumniation
  • calumniatory
  • calumnious
  • calumny
  • castigating
  • cattiness
  • catty
  • caustic
  • censorious
  • censure
  • character assassination
  • contempt
  • contemptuous
  • contumelious
  • critical
  • criticism
  • cruel
  • crying
  • damage
  • damaging
  • debasing
  • decrying
  • defamation
  • defamatory
  • defaming
  • degrading
  • demeaning
  • denigrating
  • denigration
  • denigrative
  • denigratory
  • denunciation
  • denunciative
  • denunciatory
  • deprecation
  • deprecatory
  • depreciative
  • depreciatory
  • derisive
  • derisory
  • derogation
  • derogative
  • derogatory
  • desperate
  • despicable
  • despite
  • despiteful
  • detestable
  • detracting
  • detraction
  • detractive
  • detractory
  • discrediting
  • discriminatory
  • disdain
  • disdainful
  • disdaining
  • disesteem
  • disgraceful
  • disgracing
  • dishonoring
  • disparagement
  • disparaging
  • envious
  • envying
  • false
  • fault-finding
  • gossiping
  • green-eyed
  • harm
  • hatchet job
  • hateful
  • hatefulness
  • heinous
  • hit
  • humbling
  • humiliating
  • hurt
  • hurting
  • ignominious
  • infamous
  • injuring
  • injurious
  • injury
  • injustice
  • innuendo
  • insinuation
  • insolent
  • insulting
  • invective
  • invidious
  • jaundiced
  • jealous
  • knock
  • libel
  • libeling
  • libelling
  • libellous
  • libelous
  • lie
  • malevolence
  • malevolent
  • malice
  • malicious
  • maliciousness
  • malign
  • malignancy
  • malignant
  • malignity
  • mean
  • meanness
  • minimization
  • minimizing
  • monstrous
  • muck
  • muckraking
  • mud
  • nastiness
  • nasty
  • notorious
  • obloquious
  • obloquy
  • obnoxious
  • odious
  • offending
  • offensive
  • opprobrious
  • outrageous
  • pejorative
  • rancorous
  • red hot
  • reproachful
  • reproaching
  • repugnant
  • resentful
  • revilement
  • reviling
  • ridicule
  • rude
  • running down
  • sarcastic
  • scandal
  • scandalmongering
  • scandalous
  • scathing
  • scolding
  • scorn
  • scornful
  • scorning
  • scurrility
  • scurrilous
  • shameful
  • shaming
  • sharp-tongued
  • shocking
  • slam
  • slander
  • slandering
  • slanderous
  • slighting
  • smear
  • smear campaign
  • smearing
  • spite
  • spiteful
  • spitefulness
  • spleen
  • tale
  • traducement
  • traducing
  • truculent
  • uncomplimentary
  • undesirable
  • unfavorable
  • unflattering
  • unkind
  • unseemly
  • untrue
  • upbraiding
  • venom
  • venomous
  • viciousness
  • vile
  • vilification
  • vilifying
  • virulent
  • vitriolic
  • vituperation
  • vituperative
  • vulgar
  • wrong

kicking around

  • about
  • absorbing
  • abusing
  • aestivating
  • ambling
  • analyzing
  • any old place
  • around
  • around somewhere
  • assimilating
  • bad-mouthing
  • batting
  • believing
  • blame
  • brutalizing
  • bullying
  • bumming
  • burning
  • castigation
  • censure
  • chewing on
  • chewing over
  • chilling
  • cogitating
  • conceiving
  • concluding
  • considering
  • contemplating
  • cruising
  • curse
  • curses
  • dallying
  • dawdling
  • debating
  • defamation
  • deliberating
  • derision
  • digesting
  • dillydallying
  • doodling
  • dozing
  • drifting
  • droning
  • elsewhere
  • entertaining
  • estivating
  • exploring
  • eyeing
  • eying
  • floating
  • fooling
  • fooling around
  • footling
  • fribbling
  • furloughing
  • galavanting
  • gallivanting
  • goldbricking
  • gypsying
  • hanging about
  • harassing
  • harming
  • here and there
  • hibernating
  • hoboing
  • horsing around
  • hosing
  • hurting
  • idling
  • ill-treating
  • ill-using
  • in one place or another
  • injuring
  • insults
  • invective
  • kicking back
  • killing time
  • knifing
  • lagging
  • lazing
  • lazying
  • libel
  • lingering
  • loafing
  • loitering
  • lolling
  • looking at
  • lounging
  • malingering
  • maltreating
  • manhandling
  • maundering
  • meandering
  • meditating
  • messing
  • messing around
  • messing over
  • mishandling
  • mistreating
  • misusing
  • molesting
  • monkeying
  • mooching
  • moping
  • moseying
  • mucking
  • obloquy
  • opining
  • oppressing
  • opprobrium
  • outraging
  • parts unknown
  • perpending
  • persecuting
  • piddling
  • playing
  • poking
  • pondering
  • pushing around
  • put down
  • questioning
  • quinine
  • rambling
  • ranging
  • reasoning
  • relaxing
  • reminiscing
  • reproach
  • resting
  • reviewing
  • revilement
  • revolving
  • roaming
  • roving
  • ruminating
  • sandbagging
  • sauntering
  • scattered
  • scolding
  • second-guessing
  • signifying
  • slander
  • someplace
  • someplace or another
  • someplace or other
  • somewheres
  • straggling
  • straying
  • strolling
  • studying
  • swanning
  • swearing
  • taking apart
  • tarrying
  • tinkering
  • tirade
  • tormenting
  • torturing
  • traipsing
  • tramping
  • trifling
  • truanting
  • turning
  • upbraiding
  • vagabonding
  • vegging out
  • victimizing
  • vilification
  • violating
  • vituperation
  • wandering
  • weighing
  • wronging

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