Sentence examples for slurs from inspiring English sources

"slurs" is a word that is used in written English.
It is a noun that refers to derogatory language or derogatory remarks that insult a person's character, race, or beliefs. Example sentence: The student was reprimanded for using racial slurs during class.

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slurs

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"He continues to reject all claims of wrongdoing and we hold that the integrity of the court system was marred by the bias, slurs and factual inaccuracies in the election judgment".

Images of Khomeini and anti-Iranian rhetoric abounded in American media, and that political context informed the Islamophobic slurs that my Sikh-American father endured throughout the 1980s, including "Iranian", "towelhead" and "Khomeini".

But while the report finds that gay jokes still persisted in comedies ("nearly every movie that comedian Kevin Hart appeared in last year featured numerous gay jokes"), it also found that there were fewer defamatory slurs used than in previous years.

The text notes "an increase in the occurrence of factually incorrect slurs as 'Polish death camps' in news articles" and encourages readers to comment on and protest over such usages.

"We react whenever we see such slurs," it reads.

Stereotypes and resentments, slurs and discussions about whether or not it's ok to call someone "akata", hyphens, distinctions, national boundaries and ethnic demarcations are not important.

In a statement on his website today, Lutfur Rahman said that the election court ruling which kicked him out of office as Tower Hamlets mayor was marred by bias, slurs and inaccuracies.

From her first appearance on the show in September 2014, social media users posted racist and xenophobic slurs targeting Malik's Indian ethnicity, telling her to die and "go back to where you came from".

But how will it cope should the persistent references in the media about The Sun's disgraceful slurs four days after the deaths transform into a call for a Mail boycott on Merseyside?

He was arrested last year for chaining himself to machinery while protesting against a coalmine in New South Wales, he recently complained to the referee about hearing homophobic slurs on the football field and he is an advocate for marriage equality.

"Now she's dead but not forgotten, dig her up and fuck her rotten," so chanted this year's freshers at Nottingham University, in an incident hot on the heels of the revelation that the LSE men's rugby team had distributed a freshers' leaflet full of racist, classist, homophobic and sexist slurs.

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