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as in insult
an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings
a rowdy group of patrons was kicked out of the theater for shouting slurs
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as in stain
a mark of guilt or disgrace
your drunken behavior at the wedding has cast a slur on this family
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as in to insult
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Recent Examples of slur
Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2025
At the time, Gillis was let go ahead of his first episode as a cast member because of his use of racial slurs in resurfaced footage.
—Julia Moore, People.com, 28 Feb. 2025
David Matthews, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2025
So why the failure to condemn the social media slurs publicly?
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Shortly after being hired, Gillis was fired from SNL in 2019 for using racial and homophobic slurs on a podcast.
—Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2025
At the time, Gillis was let go ahead of his first episode as a cast member because of his use of racial slurs in resurfaced footage.
—Julia Moore, People.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
Body camera footage from the incident showed Huger visibly intoxicated, slurring her speech, refusing a breathalyzer and sobriety tests.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2025
So why the failure to condemn the social media slurs publicly?
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slur
Noun
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The previous time Lilian had seen Imelda, who was sitting next to her in London, was ten years earlier, when her children were alive, but with some people mindless small talk would be an insult.—
Yiyun Li,
The New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2025
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That’s because Trump’s approach isn’t just an insult to Zelensky but to Ukraine itself and its institution of national leadership.—
Illia Ponomarenko,
TIME,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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And, since poop stains on the ice are sometimes visible from space, scientists have used the birds’ feces to identify multiple previously unknown penguin colonies using satellite imagery.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Mar. 2025
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The appeal makes sense: The color is easygoing and relaxing, and slipcovers can easily be bleached if (really, when) stains occur.—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The coverage was no doubt upsetting in part at least because articles came thick and fast at a time when Meghan was also being trolled on social media.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
16 Mar. 2025
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Besides being used to troll Drake on national stages from Super Bowl LIX to the 2025 Oscars, the chart-topping track earned the Compton rapper multiple Grammy awards including Record of the Year and Song of the Year.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
3 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Are people so affronted that she’s been able to thrive so freely in spite of her individuality which in another lifetime could have easily worked against her?—
Carly Lewis-Oduntan,
refinery29.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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There needs to be a very direct conversation about standards and a hard dose of affronting honesty.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Driving the news: Researchers from Oregon State sent a bunch of Oregon pinot — some with smoke taint, some smoke-free — over to New Zealand for a taste test.—
Kale Williams,
Axios,
12 Feb. 2025
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These were the years in which capitalism shed its pitiless light on the absurd British soul, with its deep striations of caste and station, its postcolonial taint, most of all its perverted emotional core, full of love and loathing for its own extremes of domination and servitude.—
Rachel Cusk,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The world’s second-largest economy continues to face a range of challenges, from job insecurity among the younger generation to sharp downturns in the property sector, once a cornerstone of the country’s economic growth.—
Hassan Tayir,
CNN,
5 Feb. 2025
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The former president's endorsement process has evolved from haphazard to sharp and effective, rendering all other endorsements all but obsolete.—
Kaleigh Rogers,
ABC News,
13 Sep. 2024
Verb
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Greg has been blasphemed on national hockey shows up there, eh?—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
5 June 2024
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Earlier this month, Abdul Rauf, a Muslim English teacher, was gunned down in Turbat after his students accused him of blaspheming in one of his lectures.—
Hasan Ali,
The Christian Science Monitor,
24 Aug. 2023
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Investors did not appreciate his sarcasm either, and the stock is down 2.6% since GTC25 kicked off.—
Karl Freund,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Her boozy, blustering sarcasm should be entered into evidence as a blunt instrument.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Slur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slur. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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