Sentence examples for slur with from inspiring English sources

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Tell us about the incident when you used the racial slur with a teammate.

No way: she'd call her a bigot, an asshole, or maybe, if things got heated, a slur with its own nasty history, "white trash".

In a case reminiscent of Abu Ghraib, in which guards photographed themselves with Iraqis whom they had posed in humiliating positions, a soldier was censured for writing a mocking slur with a marker on the forehead of a crying detainee.

In 2011, a publisher released a version of the novel replacing the racial slur with the word "slave" in order to "counter the 'pre-emptive censorship' that … has caused these important works of literature to fall off curriculum lists worldwide".

(Is it conceivable that he would have used a similar slur with the Japanese?) At least the White House spokesman apologized for Mr. Bush's calling the American drive against Osama bin Laden "a crusade".

As an accomplished writer himself, what would Dr. King have thought about the new altered version of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," with racial attitudes of the mid-19th century sanitized by replacing the English language's most despised antiblack slur with the word "slave"?

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Meanwhile, anthems are being slurred with some gusto around the Stade de France.

What is most impressive about Rodriguez's singing is something unexpected: her diction, which can be slurred with emotion one moment and crisply analytical the next.

Speaking of Pollock, in the project space, Ms. Cherubini is showing new glazed-ceramic wall pieces that appear to have been squashed and then slurred with color.

At a bar Mr. Pastorelli says in a voice slurred with drink, "You can't think too much, because the mind is for more than just thinking".

Vitali Klitschko is often slurred with the "Quitali" tag for the way he stayed on his stool against Chris Byrd, despite the serious injury he had sustained.

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