epithet
Example Sentences
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They had no sympathy for poor or oppressed people and described Native Americans with horribly racist epithets.
From Los Angeles Times
Others purposefully mispronounced her name so that it sounded like a racial epithet, she said.
From Washington Post
Suspects in criminal investigations were openly described with the same epithet.
From Washington Post
Roth fled his home as accounts tweeted images to him, including one of a man feeding another into a woodchipper, with the words “how else are you gonna dispose of stupid” and a plural epithet.
From Washington Post
Social-media trolls have long taunted newly laid-off reporters with the epithet “Learn to code.”
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
