Example sentences for: slurs

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

  • 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.

  • The Los Angeles Times cited a Holocaust historian's warnings that ethnic slurs can lead to violence, and the director of the Anti-Defamation League blamed the FBI and the Justice Department for allowing civil liberties concerns to limit their monitoring of hate groups.

  • Ethnic Slurs and the Avoidance Thereof

  • 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.

  • 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.


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