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Example sentences for: epithets
How can you use “epithets” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
There are nationalities and ethnic groups so confident, so satisfied with themselves that ethnic epithets either bounce off them like pebbles off an elephant or are adopted as amusing or even ornamental.
These epithets grow ever more presumptuous, ever more patronising in the context of an ever more factional, furcated society.
The epithets?
The delightful and certainly disparaging canard also occurred to me, but I had already decided to limit my quest to personal epithets.
The insulting epithets fuckface and fuckhead were originally first cited in 1961 and 1962, respectively.