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obloquy

Meaning

Abusive or condemnatory language that expresses disapproval or censure.

Examples by difficulty

Basic: Simple, everyday vocabulary — the easiest to read.

He expected cheers after his speech, but instead faced a storm of angry shouts and harsh words. The crowd's loud disapproval, a wave of pure obloquy, left him shaken and exposed.

He winced as the crowd's harsh words washed over him, their loud shouts full of anger. He could feel the sting of their disapproval, a wave of public condemnation for his mistake.

After his invention, a machine that harvested light from shadows, the inventor faced much obloquy. People called it unnatural, a perversion, their angry words swirling around him like a storm he couldn't escape, full of blame and sharp disapproval.

The entire village recoiled from Elias, his sudden betrayal earning him nothing but their harsh shouts and angry glares. He deserved the public obloquy for stealing the sacred harvest seeds, and the weight of their condemnation settled heavy on his shoulders as he fled.

The crowd's obloquy rained down after the failed experiment. Whispers of blame turned to shouts, each word a stone thrown at the scientist. He stood alone, the weight of their loud disapproval crushing him.

Normal: Standard, everyday language.

The disgraced politician faced a torrent of public obloquy after the scandal broke. Each newspaper headline, every angry shouted comment from the crowd, was a fresh wave of condemnatory language, a clear expression of their intense disapproval and censure.

After the catastrophic failure of the solar flare containment field, the lead technician faced a barrage of obloquy from the panicked colonists. Their shouts, laced with fear and fury, echoed through the emergency bunker, a testament to their raw disapproval of his miscalculations.

After he presented the bizarrely asymmetrical tofu sculptures, the art critics unleashed a torrent of obloquy. Their scathing remarks painted him as a charlatan, a thief of public funds, and a menace to the very concept of form. He just stood there, wondering if anyone appreciated the inherent tension in the wobbly stacks.

After his cat-themed sock puppet show, Bartholomew faced a barrage of obloquy from the stunned audience. Their disapproving shouts and condemnatory language made it clear they hadn't enjoyed the feline's dramatic monologue about the existential dread of being a dust bunny.

Bartholomew the badger, notorious for hoarding sparkly bottle caps, faced a torrent of disapproving shouts from the squirrel collective. Their leader, a particularly irate chipmunk named Reginald, unleashed a stream of condemnatory language, his tiny fists shaking. This widespread obloquy, while terrifying for Bartholomew, was mostly due to his habit of burying the caps in the communal nut stash.

Advanced: Richer vocabulary that stretches an upper-level reader.

His speech, filled with such venomous obloquy, shocked the assembled crowd. Every shouted word was a wave of disapproval, a clear condemnation of the proposal. They recoiled from the sheer force of his abusive language.

The disgraced chrono-archivist faced the tribunal, the air thick with their collective obloquy. Each hissed accusation, each pointed finger, painted him a villain for disturbing the temporal sanctity of the Gaseous Anomaly of Kepler-186f, regardless of his desperate scientific plea.

The inventor faced a torrent of obloquy from the agricultural council after his genetically modified blight-resistant grain failed to germinate in the arid conditions. Whispers of wasted resources and reckless ambition filled the room, a stinging condemnation of his ambitious project.

The perpetually grumpy poodle, Reginald, a creature of immense fluff and negligible charm, responded to the perfectly valid suggestion of a bath with a torrent of indignant yapping. His master, accustomed to this canine obloquy, simply sighed, knowing that such abusive language was Reginald's preferred method of expressing profound disapproval of all things sanitary.

Barnaby, a renowned expert in competitive toenail growth, found himself facing considerable obloquy after his controversial win. Critics, their faces contorted with disbelief, unleashed a torrent of abusive language, condemning his strategy of synchronized toe-wiggling as utterly unsportsmanlike.

Challenging: Rare, high-register vocabulary for serious word lovers.

The disgraced politician, accustomed to accolades, now faced a torrent of public obloquy for his mendacious pronouncements. Every news cycle amplified the condemnatory language, leaving him exposed to a populace incensed by his perfidy. The sheer weight of their disapproval was a palpable thing.

After the catastrophic failure of the bio-integrated nanite network, the lead bioengineer faced a torrent of obloquy from the council. Their carefully calibrated protein lattices had malfunctioned, causing widespread cellular degradation across the agricultural sector, a fact the assembled dignitaries were not hesitant to condemn.

The assembled guilds hurled their obloquy at the alchemist, their voices a cacophony of accusations regarding the disastrous transmutation of the sovereign's prize griffon. His carefully concocted potions, now malodorous and inert, had earned him their unreserved condemnation and the certainty of banishment.

His transgressions were so egregious, the public response was a torrent of pure obloquy. The vitriol hurled at him, a barrage of venomous condemnation, left no doubt as to their profound disapproval.

The celebrated culinary critic, notorious for his vitriolic pronouncements, unleashed a torrent of such withering obloquy upon the soufflé that it collapsed in sheer mortification, a fluffy casualty of his egregious vocabulary and unyielding disdain for anything less than gastronomic apotheosis.

Difficulty

Challenging — Rare, high-register words for serious word lovers.

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