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How to use the word epithets in a Sentence?

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My kids were threatened... my wife was subjected to many racial epithets, their car tires were slashed, my kids' dog was shot. There was little investigation, those responsible were never found. That was then, that was the South. It was hard for my wife, it was hard for my kids. But this is Syracuse. This is 2019. I do not accept this hatred here and now, this is not who Syracuse is at its best, and is not who we can let ourselves become. – Kent Syverud	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I've experienced a lot of anti-Asian racism throughout my upbringing, and it hurts. It's something that is very real, and I do think anti-Asian racial epithets are not taken as seriously as slurs against other groups. – Andrew Yang	Found on CNN 4 years ago
While working at Donald Trump's estate in Bedminster and interacting with the President and his immediate family, my clients and others were repeatedly subjected to abuse, called racial epithets and threatened with deportation, ironically, the threats often came from the same supervisor who had employed them despite knowing their undocumented status and even provided them with forged documents. – Anibal Romero	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The political forces that make up this government have been accused of being populist and anti-system..., if populism means the ruling class listens to the needs of the people ... (and) if anti-system means to aim to introduce a new system, which removes old privileges and encrusted power, well these political forces deserve both these epithets. – Giuseppe Conte	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I do not think that Donald Trump is a fascist, a racist, or any kind of epithets that are being thrown at him, i think he’s a bourgeois politician that many working people voted for based on hope and change—the same people who voted for Barack Obama elected Donald Trump. – Lea Sherman	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
What happened on the bus was not a 'hate crime,' the only person we heard uttering racial epithets was one of the defendants. – Chief Frank Wiley	Found on CNN 8 years ago
That doesn't have any credibility, and (Watts) is not happy about being falsely accused. he did not make any racial epithets, and beyond that ... if the referee made the remarks that that's somehow justification that you can assault him? – Alan Goldberger	Found on CNN 8 years ago
He did not make any racial epithets, and beyond that ... if the referee made the remarks that that's somehow justification that you can assault him? – Alan Goldberger	Found on CNN 8 years ago
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. – Jean de La Bruyère	added by anonymous 9 years ago

My kids were threatened... my wife was subjected to many racial epithets, their car tires were slashed, my kids' dog was shot. There was little investigation, those responsible were never found. That was then, that was the South. It was hard for my wife, it was hard for my kids. But this is Syracuse. This is 2019. I do not accept this hatred here and now, this is not who Syracuse is at its best, and is not who we can let ourselves become.

– Kent Syverud

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I've experienced a lot of anti-Asian racism throughout my upbringing, and it hurts. It's something that is very real, and I do think anti-Asian racial epithets are not taken as seriously as slurs against other groups.

– Andrew Yang

Found on CNN
4 years ago

While working at Donald Trump's estate in Bedminster and interacting with the President and his immediate family, my clients and others were repeatedly subjected to abuse, called racial epithets and threatened with deportation, ironically, the threats often came from the same supervisor who had employed them despite knowing their undocumented status and even provided them with forged documents.

– Anibal Romero

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The political forces that make up this government have been accused of being populist and anti-system..., if populism means the ruling class listens to the needs of the people ... (and) if anti-system means to aim to introduce a new system, which removes old privileges and encrusted power, well these political forces deserve both these epithets.

– Giuseppe Conte

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I do not think that Donald Trump is a fascist, a racist, or any kind of epithets that are being thrown at him, i think he’s a bourgeois politician that many working people voted for based on hope and change—the same people who voted for Barack Obama elected Donald Trump.

– Lea Sherman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

What happened on the bus was not a 'hate crime,' the only person we heard uttering racial epithets was one of the defendants.

– Chief Frank Wiley

Found on CNN
8 years ago

That doesn't have any credibility, and (Watts) is not happy about being falsely accused. he did not make any racial epithets, and beyond that ... if the referee made the remarks that that's somehow justification that you can assault him?

– Alan Goldberger

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He did not make any racial epithets, and beyond that ... if the referee made the remarks that that's somehow justification that you can assault him?

– Alan Goldberger

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

– Jean de La Bruyère

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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