epithets
- plural of epithet.
Example Sentences
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Epithets, though, are collaborative — which is appropriate because they’re part name, part role, part feeling.
From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2022
Epithets from "faux-naive", "impenetrable" and "wacky" have been employed in an attempt to define him.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2019
Epithets uttered in irony can be repeated in earnest.
From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2018
Epithets included “used-car salesman,” “hothead” and “nightclub bouncer,” and some wondered why he always had one hand in his pocket.
From New York Times • May 20, 2015
Epithets are weak trash for such an occasion, or I should vituperate even now the odious practice of saddling children with one's own folly or prejudice in the shape of names.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various
