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racial slur

n. a racist term used against another person

Usage examples of "racial slur".

The implied racial slur was a departure from his carefully conceived campaign oratory.

But I want to take that back because it's a racial slur, and as a Federal employee and an American, I—.

The reference to her father, along with the racial slur, was well timed by the blonde.

A couple of decades ago he would have sighed hopelessly at the racial slur, but he had long since reconciled himself to the fact that his son was a product of his environment and would never be as cosmopolitan as Otho was, with his fancy education at the Lady Wilburdon School for Mathematical Geniuses on the Isle of Rhum.

His dwarfism had crippled him, causing intermittent flashes of agony in his legs, hips, and chest, but he had the upper body strength of an ape (no racial slur intended -- it was a surprising compensatory fact of his unique build), and he refused to let his pain, even when severe, restrict his activity.

I search my fragmented memories and find multiple related cultural references including a familiar honorific, a kind of hamburger sandwich, an ancient steam locomotive, and an ancient racial slur.

Even the sight of the racial slur couldn't rekindle Hassam Arkadian's anger.