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Japanese invaders used the contemptuous term "chankuro" to refer to their Chinese victims during the Nanjing massacre.

Easterners retort with the contemptuous term of "Textilstrand" to describe beaches where bathing suits -- or "textiles" -- are used.

Did they still use that same contemptuous term for ethnic Russians you often heard in the early 1990s, "Moskali"?

During the cold war years he was labelled a "peacenik", the contemptuous term used to describe those who questioned the morality of using nuclear weapons.

Certainly the party will now have to resolve the differences between its "gangs" – to use the contemptuous term of one prominent Labour MP – with an open, decisive and perhaps cathartic leadership contest.

An article on Oct. 13 about the potency of hate and other factors that have characterized many mass killings throughout history misspelled the contemptuous term used by Japanese invaders to refer to their Chinese victims during the Nanjing massacre.

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League politicians openly describe southerners in contemptuous terms and frequently link them to the Mafia.

Among the superpowers, the big loser could be the United States, which Mr. Khanna describes in contemptuous terms.

Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, said also "denounced" the ad "in the strongest possible terms", for using "contemptuous and historically anti-Semitic tropes".

By the time of the prophet Hosea (mid-8th century bce) the antagonism to Baalism was so strong that the use of the term Baal was often replaced by the contemptuous boshet ("shame"); in compound proper names, for example, Ishbosheth replaced the earlier Ishbaal.

Instead of Republican and Democrat, therefore, I'll borrow Charles Dickens's terms "Buff" and "Blue" to denote mutually contemptuous political opposites.

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