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

When Ebert’s Mister painfully inquires about their use of a certain racial epithet — and why if he isn’t allowed to say it, they can?

From Washington Post

Poole Franklin fled after both crashes and was later arrested after going to a gas station, where she called an employee and customers racial epithets.

From Washington Post