epithet

Example Sentences

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Glenn responded by hurling several racial epithets at Proctor.

From Los Angeles Times

Those text chains also featured racial epithets for Black people as well as jokes about the Holocaust.

From Salon

Missing from both is the opening track from “Some Time in New York City,” a powerful feminist broadside that uses a racial epithet in its title.

From The Wall Street Journal

Another man accused of assaulting pro-Palestinian demonstrators and hurling racial epithets at them was also granted diversion in July.

From Los Angeles Times

They couldn’t have known that their post would kick off a debate about racial slurs and the rush to adopt new epithets for outgroups.

From Salon