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Example sentences for: epithets

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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.
These epithets grow ever more presumptuous, ever more patronising in the context of an ever more factional, furcated society.
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.
The delightful and certainly disparaging canard also occurred to me, but I had already decided to limit my quest to personal epithets.
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).