noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
racial
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After last season's playoff loss to the Pacers, vandals spray-painted racial epithets in Iverson's backyard.
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According to one report: Racial epithets were shouted at the black students as the two sides rumbled on the gray linoleum.
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The two men, once so close, fight violently, Doug hurling racial epithets at Paul.
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They invented racial epithets that showed the same imagination which put humankind upon the moon.
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There were additional complaints about McCree, who is black, claiming discrimination and using racial epithets against his white co-workers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to one report: Racial epithets were shouted at the black students as the two sides rumbled on the gray linoleum.
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Bias in nouns does not stop with epithets.
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She jumped out of the car and hurried along the road, ignoring the colourful epithet that followed her.
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The former epithet is apt, the latter less so.
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Unessential is actually an unfair epithet when applied to sticky buns.