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- noun Plural form of
epithet .
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Examples
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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?" Roger Sutton 2009
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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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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 2000
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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 Various
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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. 1865
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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.
NYT > Global Home By ERIK ECKHOLM 2011
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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.
NYT > Home Page By ERIK ECKHOLM 2011
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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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