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The phrase "use a certain epithet" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of employing a specific descriptive term or nickname, often in literary or rhetorical contexts. Example: "In his poem, the author chose to use a certain epithet to evoke strong emotions in the reader."
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In it V-Nasty, a white female rapper from East Oakland, Calif., raps for about a minute, awkwardly but with attitude, and manages to use a certain epithet twice — not violently, but casually, as if it were any other word.
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Decorate the notebook using a certain theme.
Moreover, is it really an insult to use a disparaging epithet, gender specific or not, when one is sure that the target of the epithet can't hear it?
MIKE HALE: This should only intensify the debate about the repeated use of a certain racial epithet in the film.
This week Common ruffled different conservative feathers when Maya Angelou, who appears on his new album, "The Dreamer/The Believer" (Warner Brothers), expressed dissatisfaction that the song she contributed to also features Common's use of a certain racial epithet.
Scenes of Pryor as a young, physically commanding Bill Cosby imitator in the early 1960s are revelatory; so are clips of talk-show appearances with Johnny Carson and Dinah Shore in which he calmly discusses his use of a certain racial epithet in a way that would be unthinkable on television today.
Q. Quentin Tarantino won Best Original Screenplay for Django Unchained, criticized by filmmaker Spike Lee for its use of a certain racial epithet repeatedly.
Homer used certain epithets so regularly that they became a standard part of the name of the thing or person described, as in "rosy-fingered Dawn" and "gray-eyed Athena".
He used a racial epithet several times.
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