Sentence examples for attack words from inspiring English sources

"He likes to use attack words".

Perhaps, like "neoconservative" and "Quaker" — which originated as "attack words" but are now simply descriptors, perfectly acceptable to those it describes — "Christianist" will eventually, er, evolve to become nonjudgmental enough even for the Times.

The authorisation of "all necessary measures" is broad and appears to allow the targeting of Gaddafi and others who act to put civilians "under threat of attack", words that go beyond the need to establish a connection with actual attacks.

The attack word is closely associated with the current campaign.

"Christianist" is too loaded; the late William Safire called it an "attack word".

convention in New Jersey, Vice President Gore used the attack word secret seven times.

Capitalism is doing fine, but as an attack word it has been replaced by market economy.

"It's been a slur, an attack word, but for those of us who are younger it's hollow," Shuck said.

It is also possible that the new and isolated North Korean government may have misjudged the reaction to talk of a pre-emptive nuclear attack, wording rarely heard since the cold war ended.

Unable to assail the sainted R-word defining the goal, one Republican countered with an equally traditional attack word defining the method of beginning the hoped-for crescendo: spending.

Appearing later with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at a raucous rally before 9,500 people in Dayton, the president went into a spirited assault, using his new favorite attack word — "Romnesia" — to highlight his rival's position on the auto bailout, which the White House says was vital to saving jobs in Ohio and throughout the Midwest.