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He hated the term “black” — back then spelled with a lowercase B — which had often been an opprobrious way of talking about the people to whose fight for equality he’d devoted his life.

Judge Phelan’s ruling prevented both spouses from using four specific expletives, as well as “other pejoratives involving any gender,” noting that “the Court acknowledges the impossibility of listing herein all of the opprobrious vitriol and their permutations within the human lexicon.”

In the summer of 1903, he was charged with assaulting a man who had called his mother “opprobrious” names.

When McAleenan was the deputy commissioner of CBP under Obama, the idea of separating children from parents was locked in a drawer, a policy option considered too opprobrious and unpalatable, even if seen as a potentially effective deterrent.

“Irresponsible, inflammatory, foolhardy, opprobrious and thoughtless article serving no purpose than to further add contempt to someone's name who has not been proven guilty of any crime,” wrote a Twitter user, joining the choir of more than 7,000 overwhelmingly negative comments on social media.