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"Slur" in a Sentence (25 examples)
His sexist slur was broadcasted across the country.
My uncle would always slur his words when he had had too much to drink.
"Gypsy" is a racial slur.
There, hundreds of thousands of viewers watched him use an obscure racist slur to describe a cameraman working for his opponent.
If your website allows one person to say "Kill that (racial slur)," it's now a website for inciting violence against minorities.
Kate's stepbrother got caught using a well-known racial slur while talking about a K-pop singer.
Stalin recriminalized homosexuality and called gay men "pederasts," similar to the modern Republican slur "groomer."
The Yiddish word "feygele," which literally means "little bird," has been used as a homophobic slur since the 20th century, though it has recently been reclaimed by many gay Yiddish speakers.
The word "tranny" is a transphobic slur.
If cis was a slur, you'd be allowed to say it on Elon Musk's Twitter.
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It seems that according to their best guess, our mother's ^([sic]) drank too much coffee or alcohol, took drugs, or were under stress during the period of our conception. Underlying all this speculation is, of course, the big slur: we're some kind of unnatural or abnormal product, outside of humanity and their religions.
In interviews, current and former students of color described an environment rife with racial insensitivity, including casual uses of slurs.
Elon Musk's recent declaration that the term "cis" is a slur indicates just how much transphobia is now central to Twitter.
a slur on one's reputation
The undeserved slur which he had cast on my management of the household did not, I am happy to say, prevent me from returning good for evil to the best of my ability, by complying with his request as readily and respectfully as ever.
This was a reproach to John, and a slur upon the dog; and both were alive to their misfortune.
And now I'm drinking too much, so I'ma talk with a slur
And how men slur him, saying all his force / Is melted into mere effeminacy?
to slur syllables; He slurs his speech when he is drunk.
"Thank you for your donation," the girl says, slurring the words together into a single syllable.
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
Notes , the stems of which are joined together by cross lines, as in united quavers , semiquavers , & c . or notes over the heads of which a curve is drawn, to signify that they are to be slurred
they do not only impudently slur the gospel, according to the history and the letter, in making it no better than a romantical legend[…]
With periods, points, and tropes, he slurs his crimes.
to slur men of what they fought for
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