Noun

(obloquies)

Abusive language.

* 1748 , David Hume, London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.

It is surprising, therefore, that this philosophy, which, in almost every instance, must be harmless and innocent, should be the subject of so much groundless reproach and obloquy .

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Disgrace suffered from abusive language.

* 1825 , William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age ,

His name undoubtedly stands very high in the present age, and will in all probability go down to posterity with more or less of renown or obloquy .

*1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .

*:It was comparatively easy for him to accept himself as the son of a terribly light Frenchwoman; there seemed a deeper obloquy even than that in his having for his other parent a nobleman altogether wanting in nobleness.

Noun

Offensive and abusive language or behaviour; scorn, insult.

* :

For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time, The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely [...].

* 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 19 (ISBN 1857150570)

She had been subjected to contumely and cross-questoning and ill-usage through the whole evening.

* 1914 , (Grace Livingston Hill), The Best Man :

What scorn, what contumely , would be his!

* 1953 , (James Strachey), translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Avon Books, p. 178:

If this picture of the two psychical agencies and their relation to the consciousness is accepted, there is a complete analogy in political life to the extraordinary affection which I felt in my dream for my friend R., who was treated with such contumely during the dream's interpretation.

* 1976 , (Robert Nye), Falstaff :

I could think of no words adequate to the occasion. So I belched. Not out of contumely , you understand. It was a sympathetic belch, a belch of brotherhood.