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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:

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.
If Green Mile had any bravery, it would have dealt with the fact that racial epithets were offhandedly tossed off by what were considered the best of men during that period.
The text is organized into ten chapters titled “The Lexicon for Bodily Effluvia, Sex, and Tabooed Body-Parts,” “Euphemisms in Addressing and Naming,” “Taboo Terms as Insults, Epithets, and Expletives,” and so on; without a word and phrase index, access to particular expressions is denied, thus reducing the usefulness of the work.
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.
Thus, distinguishing epithets like colonial, native, wild, black, brown, green , and gray qualify names of common Old World species like apple, ash, oak , and pine to build a considerable and understandable vocabulary.