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slur
noun as in insult
verb as in insult
Strong matches
verb as in mumble words
Strongest matches
Example Sentences
It was hard to tell from Burr’s monologue, which started with a story about getting the flu with a thrown-in ethnic slur: “You’re trying to figure out who gave it to you. You’re going through this Rolodex of people that coughed on you, sniffed near you, walked by an Asian or something.”
“They ridiculed us and belittled us,” she said of her opponents, adding that they called her “every depraved slur in the book.”
Further video shows Kelce in a heated exchange with the man, using the same slur back at him multiple times.
In video footage circulating on social media of Kelce greeting fans outside the stadium, a man can be heard shouting an anti-gay slur in reference to Kelce’s brother, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, for “dating Taylor Swift.”
Lawler has since apologized for the 2006 costume, however, he again found himself the subject of criticism after he declined to condemn the use of a racial slur for Black people by another participant at a forum on combating antisemitism where he spoke, and for pivoting to a different subject when a far-right radio talk show host told Lawler that neither Islamophobia nor white supremacy exists but that Black supremacy does.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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