Citations:opprobrious


 * 1803, Josiah Brown, Reports of Cases Upon Appeals and Writs of Error Determined in the High Court of Parliament, page 372
 * On the other side it was contended, that the crime of a libel consists in opprobrious words or signs, written, made, exhibited, or published, concerning  some person, or other subject, which it is criminal so to revile. The accusation  must therefore ...


 * 1812, George Webster, The Clerk's Magazine: Containing the Most Useful and Necessary Forms of Writings, which Commonly Occur Between Man and Man ...: And Other Instruments, Calculated for the Use of the Citizens of the United States ..., page 175
 * A. he the said R. then and there openly, publicly, falsely and maliciously said, related, and with a loud voice published these other false, feigned, scandalous  and opprobrious English words following of the said A. in the presence and  hearing ...


 * 2015, Geoffrey Hughes, An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English-speaking World, Routledge ISBN 9781317476788, page 163
 * This formulation refers to the sociolinguistic process whereby opprobrious terms, swearwords, and insults originally referring to creatures, males or both genders  have shifted semantically to be applied to women. The terms are very numerous,  ...


 * 2011, Russell L. Weaver, Catherine Hancock, Donald E. Lively, John C. Knechtle, First Amendment: Cases, Problems & Materials, LexisNexis ISBN 9780327176237
 * [Wilson] was convicted on two counts of using opprobrious words and abusive language in violation of [the] Georgia Code which provides: “Any person who  shall, without provocation, use to or of another, and in his presence opprobrious ...