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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-70/
- Published: 2020-04-05T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-04-05T09:34:34.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

The word for today is…

obloquy (noun) – 1\. Abusively detractive language or utterance; calumny.  
2\. The condition of disgrace suffered as a result of abuse or vilification; ill repute.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/obloquy?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : English speakers can choose from several synonyms to name a tongue-lashing. Abuse is a good general term that usually stresses the anger of the speaker and the harshness of the language, as in “scathing verbal abuse.” Vituperation often specifies fluent, sustained abuse; “a torrent of vituperation” is a typical use of this term. Invective implies vehemence comparable to vituperation but may suggest greater verbal and rhetorical skill; it may also apply especially to a public denunciation, as in “blistering political invective.”

Obloquy, which comes from the Late Latin ob- (meaning “against”) plus loqu? (meaning “to speak”), suggests defamation and consequent shame and disgrace; a typical example of its use is “subjected to obloquy and derision.”

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