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.