"personal" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The meaning of the term wetback, as a personal and racial slur, was used to further stereotypes of Mexicans and prevent laborers from organizing.
- As you know, I have questioned Florian Mueller's independence (he is being paid by Microsoft) and I do not intend any personal slur or attack, only the quality of his independence.
- The nasty personal slur, the flippant libelous insult, is customarily the last recourse of an exhausted mind.
- It's my eighth public election and I have never seen such a barrage of personal slurs and lies in this campaign.
- A defence of fair comment can fail if the defendant shows malice, as in Thomas v Bradbury, Agnew & Co. (1906); the defendant not only criticised the claimant's book but made many personal slurs against the author, invalidating the defence.
- Kira glanced up and ordered, "Computer, mute any personal slurs the prisoner makes against me."
- The Kothian chose to take this as a personal slur.
- See also Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, a case where certain personal slurs and obscene utterances by an individual were found unworthy of First Amendment protection, due to the potential for violence resulting from their utterance.
- The new rule, she wrote, cannot constitutionally apply to "repeated personal slurs, name calling and abuses of power, such as threats to exclude a justice from conference discussions, to ban a justice from the Hall of Justice or to hold a dissenting justice in contempt."
- Mumma took it as a personal slur upon Roie's good taste.
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