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epithet

noun as in nickname

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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.

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

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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.

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He provoked physical fights at protests and published reams of digital nonsense against Latino politicians, once superimposing a giant sombrero on an image of Antonio Villaraigosa with the epithet, “Viva Mexico!”

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First shared in a social media post on X, “Heil Hitler” as been widely denounced for its racial epithets and antisemitism.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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