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Example sentences for: slurs
How can you use “slurs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
I have observed these slurs on television, radio, and print sources.
He rushes, slurs, put the right emphasis on the wrong words, and twists his face up into a half-smirk that distracts you from the message.
For many, slang and its treatment—however clinical—is taboo, for it is loaded language, not so much with the expected four-letter words (of which there are only a handful) but with racial, religious, and ethnic slurs, which are both derogatory and offensive and are shunned like the plague by liberals.
This by no means exhausts the store of sleeping slurs that once formed an 'ard core of popular insult.
Inglis gets fabulous mileage out of this, doing a brilliant "more in sorrow than in anger" act that casts him as too horrified even to repeat Hollings' slurs.