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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.
A person who insults you in a cheap department store by asking, Do you work here?
4 The DSM insults the victims of traumas and societal injustice by calling their problems "mental disorders," thus implying that the victims are wacko and have brought their problems on themselves.
The moral confidence that kept Starr admirably untroubled in the face of partisan insults during his testimony left him equally untroubled by his own genuine errors.
Interdicted are burly “too often associated with large black men” (large, yes; black, no), fried chicken “often used to refer to the cuisine of black people” (something that customers of Colonel Sanders might well dispute), gyp “because it insults gypsies” (only for those who are aware of the etymological nuances of the language), go Dutch insults “citizens of the Netherlands” (what utter balderdash !), Ugh!