obloquy
Noun
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State of disgrace resulting from public abuse (synset 114464964)
same as: opprobrium
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A false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions (synset 106732328)
is a type of: depreciation, derogation, disparagement - a communication that belittles somebody or somethingsubtypes:
- assassination, blackwash, character assassination - an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
- malignment, smear, vilification - slanderous defamation
- libel - a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person
- slander - words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
- name calling, names - verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument
- epithet, name - a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
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