He never tried to make believe that he was a native of India; else he would have deserved the name of impostor; with which he has sometimes been unjustedly branded; but he availed himself of the fact that he was not a Portuguese, to deprecate the opprobrious name " Prangui ".
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She swiveled her head to check out the effect such a daring gesture might have on the jerk who had cut her off at the pass, but, the opprobrious offender was long gone and her less than appreciative audience turned out to be a station wagon full of nuns, no doubt on their way to do good works.
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It was " a reproach " for an Israelite to be uncircumcised ( ) The name " arelim " ( uncircumcised ) became an opprobrious term, especially a pejorative name for the Philistines, who might have been of Greek origin, in the context of the fierce wars recounted in the Book of Samuel (, ).
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The term, which is frequently derived from the New Testament phrase " maran atha " ( " our Lord hath come " ), denotes in Spanish " damned, " " accursed, " " banned "; also " hog, " and in Portuguese it is used as an opprobrious epithet of the Jews because they do not eat pork.
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In the prophets of the 7th and 6th centuries BC, the word " bamot " connotes " seat of heathenish or idolatrous worship "; and the historians of the period apply the term in this opprobrious sense not only to places sacred to other gods but to the old holy places of Yahweh in the cities and villages of Persian period.
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But I elected not to call the number to find out for sure because I didn't want to learn that, instead of lawyers, it was promoting work for, say, Mafia hit men who would, for the right fee, do some serious but nonfatal damage to you ex-spouse or to some other person who may have figured in your divorce in some opprobrious way.
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Writing in 1904, journalist Clifton Johnson documented the " opprobrious " character of the word " nigger ", emphasizing that it was chosen in the South precisely because it was more offensive than " colored . " By the turn of the century, " colored " had become sufficiently mainstream that it was chosen as the racial self-identifier for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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On 5 March 1667 / 8, he made an appearance in Plymouth court to " answer for his abusing of Mr . John Holmes, teacher of the church of Christ at Duxbury, by many false, scandalous and opprobrious speeches . " He was sentenced to make a public apology for his actions, find sureties for future good behavior and to sit in the stocks, with the stock sentence remitted.
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Long's April 8 speech firmly cemented his opprobrious label of " Copperhead "; thereafter, Long was seen as one of the chief leaders of that group : the " peace wing of the Democratic Party . " Speaker Colfax could not muster the votes to expel Long, so on April 9, 1864, Long was censured by Congress for " treasonable utterances " by a vote of 80 to 69.
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Carl Schurz, in v . 1, ch . 14, of his " Reminiscences ", reported from exile in England that upon Napoleon III's " coup d'�tat " of 2 December 1851, Our French friends shouted and shrieked and gesticulated and hurled opprobrious names at Louis Napoleon and cursed his helpers, and danced the Carmagnole and sang �a Ira .
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