Sentence examples for using the epithet from inspiring English sources

(He denied using the epithet).

Even so, don't be surprised if you soon hear people using the epithet "Wheatleyesque".

After being rebuked by his studio, Touchstone Television, Washington publicly apologized at length for using the epithet in reference to Knight.

At one point, Mr. Allen gathered a group of African-American ministers behind him for a news conference at which he angrily denied using the epithets.

(According to the Encyclopedia of New York City, George Washington was also the first person to use the epithet "New Yorker").

Williams, the Eagles cornerback, said Friday that while blacks used the epithet that Cooper used in a much different context, he believed that no one should say the word.

On Aug. 10, Dr. Schlessinger used the epithet 11 times while arguing in an exchange with a caller that there was a double standard depending on who utters the word.

"We did look at other ways of making that statement" than to use the epithet, Mr. Anderson said, but it was decided to proceed because "the goal is to be provocative and reset the conversation".

Even admirers used the epithet "womaniser" in regard to him.

The species was redescribed by Swedish mycologist Olof Swartz in 1811, using the name Clavaria vermicularis (the epithet meaning "wormlike").

There was a time when writers could hardly mention the name of the actor Richard Harris, who has died aged 72, without using the dread epithet "hellraiser".