Sentence examples for offensive utterance from inspiring English sources
For both parties and certainly the broad swath of independent voters, defeating this new crop of Tea Party nominees has become imperative to avoid the sense of national embarrassment from each divisive and offensive utterance, each wacky policy proposal.
The court describes the factors they will consider as "(1) the frequency of the discriminatory conduct; (2) its severity; (3) whether it is physically threatening or humiliating, or merely an offensive utterance; and (4) whether it interferes with an employee's work performance".
He has given a speech saying he regretted some of his offensive utterances.
But Trump didn't single out any of his offensive utterances, and he didn't actually apologize.
His lawyers wrote that "even if Thomas used profanity or made offensive utterances, they did not indicate sexual animus or rise to the level of sexual harassment".
Some do so only to prevent immediate harms, such as libel, violence or child pornography; others ban "hate speech" (offensive utterances against groups such as gay people or racial minorities) or blasphemy.
By now, most of us can list Jeremy Clarkson's more offensive recent utterances: the "n word", most unforgivably; the "slope" on a Burmese bridge; and, with Top Gear co-presenter Richard Hammond, playing Beavis to Clarkson's Butthead, those lazy, flatulent Mexicans.
It bears noting, for those who genuinely care about freedom of expression, that not a one of these offensive "speakers," including Trump himself, has faced threat of any civil or criminal penalties as a result of their vile utterances.
But to hold Bannon responsible for Trump's most offensive gestures and utterances — including the President's refusal, this week, to distance himself from white nationalists and neo-Nazis — would be going too far.
The fostering of a safe learning environment must not be done at the expense of punishing every single behavior or utterance an institution considers offensive.
