What is another word for slurs?

Pronunciation: [slˈɜːz] (IPA)

Slurs are derogatory remarks made against a particular person or group based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or ethnicity. Synonyms for the word "slurs" include insults, epithets, taunts, name-calling, verbal abuse, and hate speech. These words can be hurtful and damaging, and should never be used to attack someone's identity or background. It is important to be mindful of the language we use and to challenge those who use these types of words. Instead, we should strive to create inclusive and respectful environments that celebrate diversity and embrace differences.

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Usage examples for Slurs

If Billy Garrison's done dirt-and I admit it looks close like it-I'll bet that your stable, either trainer or owner, shared the mud-pie, all right-" "I've stood enough of those slurs," cried Waterbury, in a frenzy.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson
In going away for a rest it did not seem prudent to take the press into my confidence, a course which resulted in the mean slurs that I had abandoned my cause.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
The abuse was of the same nature as that heaped on others, the same as that finally hurled at me in the wireless "Gold Brick" slurs.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook

Famous quotes with Slurs

  • It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.
    Jane Alexander
  • Politics calls for robust debate and criticism, but this should never descend to personal and demeaning slurs.
    Kim Beazley
  • You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
    Anita Brookner
  • My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words."
    Charles Moore
  • Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Except are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
    Aristotle

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