10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OBLOQUIAL»
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obloquial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Best Words: More Than 200 of the Most Excellent, Most ...
—Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas, 1938 obloquial (ah-BLOH-kwee-al) adjective
obsequious (ob-SEE-kwee-es) adjective 1. characterized by servile compliance;
fawning. 2. obedient and submissive. Oo obloquy obloquial obsequious.
Robert Hartwell Fiske,
2011
His voice was obloquial. “Because I owe it to the memories of the ones I love.”
His words were so gentle they merged with the nearby hiss of the surf eroding the
shingle beach. Cam didn't see the tears on the man's cheeks. Franco Haggis was
...
3
Signs of Life: Six Comedies of Menace
REICH: (Low and obloquial) There is no progress, of course. Simply an
exchange of conditions. (Lights up STAGE RIGHT on ADOLF HITLER who rallies,
waving his telescope for this next line, which he saysin unison with DR. REICH)
DR.
Joan Schenkar, Vivian Patraka,
1998
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The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple: ...
... is the Sri Lankareturned journalist and producer of picture books, S. Muthiah,
who got his stripes sitting at the feet of the notorious Indian Express columnist
Harry Miller, Muthiah's current patron is The Hindu, an obloquial communist rag
that ...
... OBLITERATING OBLITERATION OBLITERATIONS OBLITERATIVE
OBLITERATOR OBLITERATORS OBLIVION OBLIVIONS OBLIVIOUS
OBLIVIOUSLY OBLIVIOUSNESS OBLIVIOUSNESSES OBLONG OBLONGLY
OBLONGS OBLOQUIAL ...
Maliha Mendoza Mahmood,
2013
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Neither Here Nor There: (de)centered Portraits of Montréal ...
... space of one paragraph - is astounding. More importantly, however, the text not
only recounts the story of this urban denizen, but simultaneously comments on
his rise and fall as he simultaneously experiences joy and obloquial degradation.
Christopher Porter Bolander,
2008
7
Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and ...
... visitors to these spots, as laborers from nearby railroad depots and sugar
refineries would meet to eat. drink, gamble, dance, and engage in other such
after-work activities.94 Yet rousters alone were singled out for such obloquial
treatment.
3. reproachful, opprobrious; infamous, disreputable, dishonorable; disgraceful,
obloquial, inglorious, shameful; degraded, debased, defiled. odium, n. 1.
abhorrence, abomination, execration, loathing, detestation; misanthropy,
misogyny; scorn, ...
Jerome Irving Rodale,
1978
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Missouri Folklore Society Journal
Yet rousters alone were singled out for such obloquial treatment. As a general
rule, the Mascot remarked in 1889, the black roustabouts were "a low thieving
gang of scoundrelly vagabonds, who squander their money in gambling and on ...
10
The New Tsars: Russia Under Stalin's Heirs
The major breakthrough in this connection came at the December 1969 Central
Committee plenum when he delivered his obloquial attack on the administration.
Brezhnev, it must be remembered, has no authoritative government and state ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OBLOQUIAL»
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obloquial is used in the context of the following news items.
The ideas man of Chennai who made a difference to his generation
... "an obloquial Communist rag" and Muthiah as a "notorious columnist" associated with "another Communist rag, the Indian Review of Books". «The New Indian Express, Jul 13»