Definitions
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- n. Plural form of epithet.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In fact while not “racist”, your use of epithets is nearly as offensive and ultimately as non-constructive.
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Doing so -- no matter what the stage of their careers -- should never earn authors insulting epithets from the people working in publishing houses.
"What do YOU do when your favorite author turns out to be a puppy-kicker?"
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An African-American co-worker confirms that when he is with his friends certain epithets fly that no white person could get away with saying publicly.
Rocker's a rockhead, but making senseof Prospal's comments isn't so easy
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The new uniforms came at last, and all the slang epithets with which our regiment had been received were duly transferred to the newly arrived squads of the next in order.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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It is with an affecting sense of gratitude to God that I discover the positive poverty of my mother-tongue in epithets of vileness befitting its description.
The Martyred President: A Sermon Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
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In middle school he was called epithets almost daily, and once he was urinated on from above the stall as he used the toilet.
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Sedley, when he concluded him a fool, as well as a fop; 'For,' added he, with a smile, 'I see, now, one of those epithets is all he merits.
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For the first point, yes, being able to use epithets is a viewpoint of sorts (South Park shows this), but it’s not what is generally meant when talking about viewpoints under First Amendment law.
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I knew it wouldn't be long before the bigots started with outright racial epithets, that is what happens when one party is devoid of ideas and any goodwill.
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It seems that Diouf was heard to hurl some nasty and pejorative epithets in the direction of an opposition player who had just had his leg smashed in an accidental collision.
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