Example sentences for: epithets

How can you use “epithets” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We can maximize the total freedom of speech by silencing people who prevent others from speaking--when they utter racial epithets, represent women in degrading ways, use their wealth to dominate the press and the political process, or block the funding of unorthodox art.

  • Racial and religious slurs and epithets abound; sometimes those who use them are not even aware that they are offensive (like the term Hebrew for a Jew).

  • epitats (epithets) NBC News reporter David Bloom 29 July 1995 and on many occasions since; CBS 60 Minutes reporter Steve Croft 25 September 1994

  • Chatterbox has learned that Monica Lewinsky's mother, Marcia Lewis, used certain familiar epithets to describe her husband, Bernard, when she divorced him back in the late 1980s.

  • The insulting epithets fuckface and fuckhead were originally first cited in 1961 and 1962, respectively.


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